. Dementia praecox and paraphrenia . - the Holy Ghost who tells him every-thing, is in him, draws off the poison ; he takes copies of themost beautiful pictures by golden wires with magnetic print- PARAPHRENIA 321 ing and electricity; he possesses the African method of lifeso that he cannot die, has grace, is in the service of theGodhead, receives revelations from the spiritualists aboutthe approach of the end of the world; words of God flowfrom his mouth; God lives in his body. The delineation of the high-flown exalted ideas leadssometimes to an extraordinary expenditure of superlatives. --^^
. Dementia praecox and paraphrenia . - the Holy Ghost who tells him every-thing, is in him, draws off the poison ; he takes copies of themost beautiful pictures by golden wires with magnetic print- PARAPHRENIA 321 ing and electricity; he possesses the African method of lifeso that he cannot die, has grace, is in the service of theGodhead, receives revelations from the spiritualists aboutthe approach of the end of the world; words of God flowfrom his mouth; God lives in his body. The delineation of the high-flown exalted ideas leadssometimes to an extraordinary expenditure of superlatives. --^^-^-^ ^ Specimen of Writing 7. Paraphrenia phantastica. x §. in which the patients try to describe their immeasurablesuperiority and suffering. An idea is given of it by thefollowing extract from*one of the innumerable documentsendlessly repeated in a similar way with which a femalepatient furnished us. I add from them also a specimenof writing in which the effort is made in its large,pretentious features to do justice to the highly strained self-consciousness. I have here the Highest of all, the most Immeasurable of all, themost Sublime of all the most Colossal of all the most Boundless of all 322 DEMENTIA PRyECOX the most Unlimited of all the most Distinguished of all only Highest ofall only most Immeasurable of all only most Sublime of all only mostColossal of all only most Unlimited of all (so on for six folio pages), bornthe being possessing the most Devoted most Loving most PassionateEmbracing all Embracing all more than all hottest Hottest of allReverence Love Thankfulness,
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