Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. PERIODICAL FORMS. The rare form of periodical melancholia generally presents nochanges in expression from that found in simple melancholia. Thetwo upper pictures represent an impure form of periodical melan-cholia, because it is irregularly interrupted by conditions of violentexcitement; on the whole, however, the periodical change is con-fined to the melancholic depression. The first picture illustrates,in part, the remarks made concerning the plate on melancholia. The second picture exhibits a peculiar expression
Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. PERIODICAL FORMS. The rare form of periodical melancholia generally presents nochanges in expression from that found in simple melancholia. Thetwo upper pictures represent an impure form of periodical melan-cholia, because it is irregularly interrupted by conditions of violentexcitement; on the whole, however, the periodical change is con-fined to the melancholic depression. The first picture illustrates,in part, the remarks made concerning the plate on melancholia. The second picture exhibits a peculiar expression wliich hasnothing to do with melancholia. It was due only in part to thedepressed mood of the patient, but chiefly to the bright wrinkling of the forehead and eyebrows, the folds on the skinof the nose, the drawing upward of the lower lids, cheeks, andupper lip serve to diminish the palpebral opening and prevent theentrance of light. The same play of features was repeated, how-ever, in a darker place, and the patients conversation show
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