. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. or its contraction is certainlynot a necessary concomitant of this state of mind. A man may exhibit extreme terror in the plainestmanner by death-like pallor, by drops of perspiration onhis skin, and by utter prostration, with all the musclesof his body, including the platysma, completely re-laxed. Although Dr. Browne has often seen this musclequivering and contracting in the insane, he has notbeen able to connect its action with any emotional con-dition in them, though he carefully attended to patientssuffering from great fear. Mr. Nicol, o
. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. or its contraction is certainlynot a necessary concomitant of this state of mind. A man may exhibit extreme terror in the plainestmanner by death-like pallor, by drops of perspiration onhis skin, and by utter prostration, with all the musclesof his body, including the platysma, completely re-laxed. Although Dr. Browne has often seen this musclequivering and contracting in the insane, he has notbeen able to connect its action with any emotional con-dition in them, though he carefully attended to patientssuffering from great fear. Mr. Nicol, on the otherhand, has observed three cases in which this muscleappeared to be more or less permanently contractedunder the influence of melancholia, associated withmuch dread; but in one of these cases, various othermuscles about the neck and head were subject to spas-modic contractions. Dr. W, Ogle observed for me in one of the Londonhospitals about twenty patients, just before they wereput under the influence of chloroform for operations. :pl k//-.
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