Show CONSTANT BATHS HIS MANIA wealthy youth spend spends mert most of his time washing A man mans s curious mania for constant cone tant washing Is puzzling physicians at plainfield N J the patient who Is 1 suffering from rom the delusion that any thing he be touches soils his hands Is I 1 the eon son of wealthy parents lie ile spends most ot of his time over the wash basin cleansing his face and hands he Is being treated by dr harry V hubbard who in speaking of the case said that he had every reason to be lieve that he would be able to effect a cure this Is the third case of the kind that has come to my attention dr hubbard said but it Is by far the most aggravated my patient labors under the hallucination that every object he touches soils that part ot of the body with which it comes in contact and he at once rushes to the wash basin or bath tub as the case may be not long ago his family sent tor for me and explained their son s mania tn u told me that he had been in the b th room 13 hours that day without leav ing the room and they had reason to believe that if he had taken one bath within that time he had bathed 30 0 times of course this would weaken the strongest constitution en on earth to give you an idea how d nl nj rooted this mania is it usually takes this young man from two to five hours to dress each morning he ile arises and at once plunges into his bath this complete he sets about mahig his morning toilet after pick picking ingup ip one piece of underwear and putting it on he at once washes his hands the other garment Is slipped on and again he washes his hands to get on his shoes and stockings he has to wash his hands four times and so on until the toilet is complete he never touches an object that he does not cleanse his hands immediately thereafter at times we find him deeply dis after his bath more often than not he complains that the towels he used were not clean and he will set another bath and plunge in and out until he is completely ech exhausted austed |