Case No. 13.—Constantly talking to imaginary objects, but 159 still perseveres in his habits of usefulness Case No. 14.—A beautiful exhibition of female kindness and 159 love of children, as well as of many other symptoms which indicate that her former habits and general natural character and disposition have been amiable _Illustrated by a Portrait_ 159 Case No. 15.—Like a passionate and proud man in a constant 161 state of inebriation Observation 8th.—A striking instance of the correspondence 162 between cause and effect Case No. 16.—Vanity turned into stone 163 _Illustrated by a Portrait_ 116 Case No. 17.—An unmarried female, useful as a laundress, 163 and distinguished by her affection for cats and kittens Case No. 18.—An extreme instance of the most furious 164 excitement of the vindictive and destructive passions, and the habits and states to which his treatment had reduced him Observation 9th.—The mistake of calling those facts, which 166 are the effects of improper treatment, symptoms of insanity Case No. 19.—Constantly like one muttering in his dreams. 167 Very good-natured Observation 10th.—Perhaps his reason might have been 168 re-awakened by constant judicious treatment and attention Case No. 20.—An ideot, but employed 168 _Illustrated by a Portrait_ 168 Case No. 21.—Was formerly in states of furious revenge, now 169 gradually diminished in frequency and degree, by kindness Observation 9th.—A happy illustration of the effects of 170 kindness Case No. 22.—Mind a perfect wreck—the effect of 170 disappointed love Case No. 23.—A very interesting caricature of political 171 mania of a person of family and title. He fancies himself constantly employed in making calculations and in doing many strange acts, all necessary parts of _his mighty_ task of paying the national debt, which abstracts him from all external objects, and from all consciousness to his own bodily sensations Observation 12th.—That the correspondence between the 175 present and previous habits of mind, are, in most cases, and certainly in this, most striking On the effects of heat and cold, and the changes of 175 temperature in the insane That we are not to mistake, which is often done, the mind, 175 in a state of abstraction, being insensible to the external changes of temperature, for the physical system being unaffected by their action That the changes and unequal diffusion of heat correspond 176 with the general and particular state of the mind, and that in cases of pure intellectual abstraction, and in those excited by the bad passions, it is very different, and in