| Show THE GREENEYED MONSTER Medical Analysis of the Spirit of Jealousy by a Startled British Doctor Lancet Among the multitudinous and multifarious mul-tifarious uses of disease reported year after > ear In the columns of the Lancet I he not seen a ce or that ery old and commonplace complaint Iolouor spirit ot jealousy an It Is named in I the Scriptures where It In I fully descilbeel And treated I would therefore ak permlelon to mention a hat has come under my COol e Some years ago I wa requested 10 visit n lady who It wan represented tome to-me wa iery Ill And ho consequently required Immedlite attention On eti teilng the house 1 was shown Into the socalled sick room In which thero were the Ieron all ot wholn seemed to me to be In good health There were present nn old lady the owner of the house and her daughter who had arrived a few dnvs previously from a neighboring county to spend two or three weeks with her mother nnd the daughters husband whose vi 1lt wa only 10 be for a day or two The The man WM about 35 yearn ot age 01011 In stature swarthy In complex Ion and plain looking The wife WOT a striking contract to her husband She was rather tall remarkably fair And hondome and nass n few year younger than her good man Afte taking n seat I asked which of them woo the patient but no answer having been given to my Inquiry I asked again Then the jo miter lady with some hesitation said hr nm the patient oM my complaint Is Jealousy Ion Jealous of my husband and It you do not give me something to relieve me I mil BO out of my mind This ac tontlon against the little man seemed to me to be mot rldleulou iIndeed I could not help thinking the It the nc tser had been the accused It woulll have been more In the nature of things I assured the lady I wAN extremely sorry for her the more no thai I was quite Incomptent to trent such a case tlOl < ecr I advised that a wloo mutual mu-tual friend hould be eonsultll Who would make things pleasant between husband and wife for that In all prob ailllty there was no grounds for her suspicions The hubon1 protested him Innocence and declared there ties M cause whatever for her Wreusattlong The wife persisted In relt rating them and so the wrangle went on till pull denly Phi fell from her hair on the floor In nOt the spa modlci movements of whicl were so Btrnng and varied lint It would be Almost impossible to describe them At one moment the patient wns exlenI1 nt full length fill her bodv Arched forward n state or otlstMtonos The next lOin min vto she was 111 n Billing position v lIh the legs dtnnn up mnklne while her Imnls clutched her throit n guttural nnlne Then Ih woulll throw herelf on her hark ana thrust her arm and l logo I about 10 the no moll dancler ot thow round hr Then hecomlng com porathply qUIt and supine she would quiver all Or while hr ey1110 1 trem Mel with rleftt rnpldlly This Plate Perhaps would he followed by general Convulsive movements In hleh she woulll put herself Inlll the molt gro groi tprqt o poetures nnd make the most uulov1 grinnnees At last the fit ended and exhausted And In I tears Fheiwilq put to bell The Patient ws IIlhe I muscular woman nn1 10 restrain her movements during the Attack with the olotonp at hand an a matter of ImlOlhlllly so nil that Could be don wa 0 10 Prevent hPr Injuring hrrelt And In sprinkle her freely with mid WOIa Tho after treat ment won more geographical than rafl Iral The husband Pon Bd doIng bul ties In 0 certain town herp tile obJect ob-Ject ot his wlta uspldon lived He wo enhld to do 100 lJy the Vividness or o friend who exchanged part or him district with him ThIs woo not a case lit epilepsy for the muscular spapmes ot the potlent I were not exdctlV similar 10 those ot that disease Dldeo there was no foaming at the mouth or IJlllnr ot tIe I longue an1 ronelounos wall nol 1 think at any I time tully al abanee am Is I the taa In epilepsy Th Httao was a I welld clopeit hyitcUcal Ot with n good lIelll I of cntnlptlr rigidity of the miicl The lit wa nut the dlseaw but It was the symptom or Inonltlnllon ot It Mind < 11 < 1 or de ranged the tate of the mind being tho result of th omans brooding over her real or Im Binary wrongs When the mind of n nrltlvr fetson In I axed on an allnbso nR xuliji I like that ot Jealousy It may become unhinged And when this Is the case the brain may I think occasionally relievo Itself by cx 1lolon ot more or Icam uncontrollabl und I misdirect muscular nerG It lets off srolll And pcrlmns IM Ian 1 the better from bursting Hut Jealous frequently nssumeH a violent und destructive character for as the wises 01 the Pons ot men raVs Jalouy Is cruel an the grave the coals thereo are coals of fire which hnth a most ve hement flame Not long After th Above c lIse came under tn notice I read In the Standard lIwtolr nn oc count of three murders tach attributed 10 jealousy Attain Jealousy In nn unobtrusive form may bo found Innuenclng tho course ot many dlscaio s and omellme It MAY Ink ueh n dp told on the 101111 01 n patient Ih1 It inay h I rOil sldred the flbonsp lIdf 11 in I lint onn however flint a rtltal Patient will reveal to a thlr person file cause of her mental depression imi of Elect And Appetite And her unvvllllngnei 10 leave her loom And resume Outdoor n erchw A hl1han1 lOa thrm nom light on i 0 ae that Is I making little or no proarcirs towcN recovery I haVe had Cases 1 11 1 is festive ot tills kind 01 JPOIouily And have had Ono Litely And this 1 know that In I frosting them IL mn requires to be n IIlplomllllst ns well I as a Musician |
