. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. the front of the head. Dr. Browne further remarks that the bristling of thehair which is so common in the insane, is not alwaysassociated with terror. It is perhaps most frequently 296 FEAE. Chap. XII. seen in chronic maniacs, who rave incoherently and havedestructive impulses ; but it is during their paroxysmsof violence that the bristling is most observable. Thefact of the hair becoming erect under the influence bothof rage and fear agrees perfectly with what we have seenin the lower animals. Dr. Browne adduces several casesin evidence. Th
. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. the front of the head. Dr. Browne further remarks that the bristling of thehair which is so common in the insane, is not alwaysassociated with terror. It is perhaps most frequently 296 FEAE. Chap. XII. seen in chronic maniacs, who rave incoherently and havedestructive impulses ; but it is during their paroxysmsof violence that the bristling is most observable. Thefact of the hair becoming erect under the influence bothof rage and fear agrees perfectly with what we have seenin the lower animals. Dr. Browne adduces several casesin evidence. Thus with a man now in the Asylum, beforethe recurrence of each maniacal paroxysm, the hair* rises up from his forehead like the mane of a Shetland* pony. He has sent me photographs of two women,taken in the intervals between their paroxysms, and headds with respect to one of these women, that the state of her hair is a sure and convenient criterion of her mental condition. I have had one of thesephotographs copied, and the engraving gives, if viewed. Fig. 19. From a photograph of an Insane woman, to show the condition of her hair. from a little distance, a faithful representation of theoriginal, with the exception that the hair appearsrather too coarse and too much curled. The extraor-dinary condition of the hair in the insane is due, not Chap. XII. ERECTION OF THE HAIK. 297 only to its erection, but to its dryness and harshness,consequent on the subcutaneous glands failing to Bucknill has said ^° that a lunatic ^ is a lunatic to his fingers ends ; he might have added, and oftento the extremity of each particular hair. Dr. Browne mentions as an empirical confirmationof the relation which exists in the insane between thestate of their hair and minds, that the wife of a medicalman, who has charge of a lady suffering from acutemelancholia, with a strong fear of death, for herself,her husband and children, reported verbally to himthe day before receiving my letter as follow
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