Daydreams of a . isy man brought from his is rather undersized, and has been a man of unusualintelligence. You are informed that he is a physician,and résides in the city. This lunatic at once tells youthat he has the finest musical voice, and invites you tolisten to him sing. He says he can, by a simple opéra-tion, so improve the vocal cords that any one can hâvea similar voice. Then he again raves in the wildest mari-ner and at the top of his voice. The doctor undertakesto quiet him, but he seems intractable. He then givesthe man a sharp look, lays his hand upon his shoulder
Daydreams of a . isy man brought from his is rather undersized, and has been a man of unusualintelligence. You are informed that he is a physician,and résides in the city. This lunatic at once tells youthat he has the finest musical voice, and invites you tolisten to him sing. He says he can, by a simple opéra-tion, so improve the vocal cords that any one can hâvea similar voice. Then he again raves in the wildest mari-ner and at the top of his voice. The doctor undertakesto quiet him, but he seems intractable. He then givesthe man a sharp look, lays his hand upon his shoulder,and he immediately becomes quiet. The doctor thentells you that this man imagines he has had an opérationperformed upon him which has given him the intenselymusical voice he believes himself to possess. A few days later you learn that this poor fellow isdead. He was only one of the many victims of over-work which you so often see in the profession of medicine—a man giving his own life in his efforts to save He gives the man a sharp look. Insanity and the Alienist 55 You now take leave of the hospital and feel relievedto get away. You also reluctantly take leave of thealienist, only a glimpse of whose work you hâve seen,but you hâve seen enough, and you are glad that thèseunfortunates hâve such a man to care for them—to de-vote his life to the alleviation of their dreadful maladies» Chapter VI Bacteriology and the Bacteriologist BACTERIOLOGY, says the doctor, is the sci-ence of microorganisms, or the minute forms ofplant life which cannot be seen with the naked eye, andwhich require a high-power microscope to bring theminto vievv. The world is full of bacteria. They exist inthe atmosphère and in the soil in countless are also to be found in great profusion in stagnantwater, and in ail forms of decaying vegetable and animalsubstances. They are divided into two classes—patho-genic, or disease-producing, and non-pathogenic, or thosewhich are e
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