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EDWAED D.

WORRELL. 65

id. Would pat my hands
over his eyelids, and it seemed
to compose him. He would con-
tinnally talk, eall over the roll
of soldiers, and almost invaria-
bly call constantly on Lieut. Clark
and ask if his horse was ready
for him to go to Leavenworth
City. Sometimes he was sppar-
ently cheerful. The alternations
from cheerfulness to depression
were not founded on any causes
I eould account for; were gen-
erally sudden, From the latter
part of September, 1856, until we
came up here, I have not wit-
nessed less than 100 parorysms.
He would have sometimes two a
day, not all equally violent;
sometimes mere insensibility.
Day before yesterday he was go-
ing t have an attack; he did
not. On one oecasion the parox-

yams were so violent I had to
open the small trap in the door
and called in the under-turnkey,
named Mike, to come and help
me hold bim.

Cross-examined, None of these
orary symptoms returned on him
until after last September term.
‘He was irritable from childhood.
1 could always control him by 2
word exeept in these paroxysms,
My corrections of him when
young would sometimes increase
the excitement, would enrage
bim more; he did not seem to be
able to bear it at all. My friends
said I was too strict and I would
then relax my discipline. He
had but few playmates; had very
warm friends amongst them,
yet when they were very fond of
him he was irritable towards
thee,

IN REBUTTAL

Dr. W. W. Bassett. Am a
itiover of medicine; have
Tived in St, Louis three or four
Before that lived 16 or
17 years at Manchester, St. Louis
County. Have practiced 21.
years. Hold the office of coun-
physician. Have attended
‘orrell in jail; saw nothing like
derangement of the mind at that
no symptoms of insanity
that I know of Asked him the
usual questions physicians ask
patients and he answered them
as satisfactorily as patients us-
nally do.
He com-

plained much of headache. Don't
know but what it was the com-
mon manifestation accompany-
ing chill and fever. Don’t think
an was said to me about
his having had
convulsions. Noi

heard of or saw indueed me to
look for anything else than the
state of the brain ineident to in-
termittent fever. In 99 cases
out of a hundred 4 pain in the
head, or headchae will aceom-
pany a chill or fever. Think, as
a physician, I saw him from six
to ten times. The enuses of in-
sanity are represented to be
various, Epileptic ts may be
one means of producing ingan-
ity. Never witnessed it compli-
cated with or caused by epilepsy,
though it might. This kind or
character of insanity produced
by by epilepsy, 80 far as I have

fit and from the books,
ig imbecility, by which I mean
the mental faculties are very
much impaired. Have repeatad-
ly treated eases of of epilepsy
in my practice; they were eases
of both long and short standing.

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