Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . of the woman were taken after an interval of severalweeks and show very well the rigid, stereotyped expression of amelancholia which has passed into dementia. The wrinkled brows of the young man on the left also indicateprevious melancholic depression ; he has been demented for yearsand sits mute, but occasionally tears his hair and picks off the skinof the face and scalp; this is shown by the light spots and the baldhead. The young man on the right is also mute; his previous historyis obscure. His general bearing and gait seem to indicate
Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . of the woman were taken after an interval of severalweeks and show very well the rigid, stereotyped expression of amelancholia which has passed into dementia. The wrinkled brows of the young man on the left also indicateprevious melancholic depression ; he has been demented for yearsand sits mute, but occasionally tears his hair and picks off the skinof the face and scalp; this is shown by the light spots and the baldhead. The young man on the right is also mute; his previous historyis obscure. His general bearing and gait seem to indicate increasedself-esteem, and this does not appear to be contradicted by thefacial expression. But as a matter of fact he is completely de-mented and makes terrible grimaces. He has become a veritableexpert in movements of the mouth and displacement of the integu-ment of the forehead. All the movements are made in a quiet,dignified manner, while the hands are crossed on the back or thearms folded on the chest. HANDBOOK OF INSANITY. KIRCHHOFF. Plate VII.
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