Nervous and mental diseases . t ofhis delusions, imaginary conversations, through the medium of hallucinations. A good example of this form wasthat of Dougherty, who followed Mary Anderson all over the country,and was finally sent to an asylum because of his threats to kill any onewho interfered with his attempts to gain a personal interview with thefamous actress. Measurements which I made of his head showed apathological excess in the height of the After his commitmentto an asylum he shot one of the physicians who had him in interesting variety of paranoia is that obse
Nervous and mental diseases . t ofhis delusions, imaginary conversations, through the medium of hallucinations. A good example of this form wasthat of Dougherty, who followed Mary Anderson all over the country,and was finally sent to an asylum because of his threats to kill any onewho interfered with his attempts to gain a personal interview with thefamous actress. Measurements which I made of his head showed apathological excess in the height of the After his commitmentto an asylum he shot one of the physicians who had him in interesting variety of paranoia is that observed in the litiga-tionists (paranoia querulans), who occasionally distinguish themselves bytheir lifelong involvement in legal processes (due to an overwhelmingegotism, which leads to a continual zealous effort to set themselves right,despite the advice of friends, and the wasting of their property, after the 1 Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease, by M. Allen Starr, New York, on Paranoia, by F. Peterson, page Fig. 314.—Erotic paranoia. Mary Ander-sons lover (see text). 824 MENTAL DISEASES. loss of some possibly trivial lawsuit). Pretenders to thrones, self-styledkings, presidents, princes, and so on, are often noted among paranoiacswho have reached this third stage of evolution. Quite commonly per-secutory ideas still remain in the minds of these patients in associationwith the delusions of grandeur. Each of these periods of development may last for several years,the disorder may undergo arrest at any period, and there may be varia-tions in the degree of development of any stage; so that we constantlymeet with atypical forms of paranoia. An excellent condition ofmemory, judgment, and intellect in all other directions save in thoserelated to the single cluster of delusions may coexist. Years ago thesecases were designated as monomania, because of the apparent lucidityof the patient outside of the limited number of fixed ideas. Manyparanoiacs have distinguishe
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