| Show THE MAD MONARCH A RECENT issue of the cologne announces that the condition of the mad king of bavaria otto I 1 ts la now merely vegetative that he be is ie unable to distinguish persons in his big familiar entourage and that his bia attendants tend ants have the 9 greatest greatest difficulty in getting him tofake food a condition of things which seems to indicate steady progression toward the inevitable and gloomy finale this is one of the most pe peculiar eullar cases wl wi hin bin the records of the materia modica medica of course the eminent station of the patient adds importance to the subject object but divested of kingliness kindliness and all other extraneous considerations it to is still a peculiar almost a mystifying one what caused il iia gradual disintegration te of the brain tissues most likely but this does but give rise to another and just as perplexing a problem what caused the disintegration we have not heard board it described as organic a weakness of creation because the symptoms I 1 if we are correctly informed did not manifest them themselves stIves in early life but developed only a few years ago perhaps the following extract from 6 recent article on this thia subject may throw some light upon it 4 the agthe king to is extremely fond of cigarettes and smokes more than thirty a dy day every time he be lights a cigarette he be burns a whole box of match matcher ep and aad seems to enjoy the noise and the flame 9 the poisonous smoke of thirty of those things every day being drawn to and nd saturating the salivary glands glande and coming the pores odthe the mouth should I 1 in tile the natural course of things pro duee diee death within a more or low less onea measured time corresponding with the physical ability of the victim to resist the baneful influence insanity would almost surely aurely take place at an early tage and what death more to be dreamed dreaded than that which is preceded by the complete occultation of the kaind we have not heard of the kings condition bein being ascribed to this cause but that the loathsome loathsome and devouring habit is in enlarging the he malady and hastening the tragic d do 0 nou ement there can be no DO manner of doubt |
