– M – White? – 24 yrs – Insanity on day of admittance – Homicidal Mania.
Has never attempted to kill anyone here. He tears off his clothes, and then sits quietly in a corner. Is kept in a separate cell at night. At night he prevents his neighbors from sleeping. Speaks of seven men whom he( is said to have) killed. Considers his deed as the most natural, and finest ever performed by any one – In killing these men, he undoubtedly did so through an irresistible instinctive impulse.
– F – White – 30? yrs – Pica
This unfortunate woman has fine traits and her appearance would denote a woman of refined habits, maybe be of a high origin. This lady reasons her case so very well as to induce the belief that she is not insane. Her reasoning was so lucid, that I was about to discharge her when she began to devour the items on my desk. Matter not what is placed before her, she will eat it, wood, metal, etc. She has since eaten her own lips and parts of her mouth and must be muzzled.
– F – W – 32 yrs – Melancholic Hallucination.
This woman, about a month ago, was reading an illustrated paper which criticizes in bad every thing. She imagined that the critic of the paper alluded to her in particular, and from this time her insanity began, & has been growing worse ever since. She is a slave to the belief that she is nursing her youngest child which is a linen doll. She speaks of her children who are in the garden, whereas they are not present, nor is there a garden near by.