DEATH OF AN INSANE MAN FROM FRACTURE OF SKULL AND HEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN; SKULL ABNORMALLY THIN
Abstract
AN AND SKULLINSANE HEMORRHAGEFROM OFFRACTURE THE THIN. BRAIN;ABNORMALLY A. R. MOULTON,Hospital for Insane,M. D.,Philadelphia.Mr. and was theL., business admittedfifty-nineyears,married,a well-educated for for that thatman, who had been to the Pennsylvania ofintemperate Hospital family March; of andsome years, the Insane in patient he had had and and had been been that him ofautumn It wasstated changeda member since theof his previousappeared wakeful lessening; he hadand restless; that his power that he had been abusive developed increasing delusionsself-control threatening;of wealthgrandeur.He was brought to believe that Pennsylvania,to the hospital by his friends they were conducting him to where he could have analyzedwho had led the University certain specimensof rock that he had found on his land, and which he thought contained a very valuable mineral. Upon being informed that he was in a hospital he became very excited for a short time. He was inclined to have argumentative disputes with other patients, gentleman and upon several At occasions times he he used was vulgar violent to one in in particular. languagethe presence of women nurses. He was much engrossed with the idea that he would become immensely wealthy from his landed interests and the development of his mineral deposits. When ing,â