Dr. Winslow’s second case is equally to the point: “I am indebted to a medical friend for the particulars of the following case. During the winter of 1849 he was called to see H. B., about five or six o’clock in the morning. The patient was the wife of a tailor and mother of three children. At this time she was rather emaciated and debilitated in bodily health, and anemic in appearance. She was of a religious turn of mind, and belonged to the Wesleyan persuasion. On the morning of the narrator’s visit, he found the woman in a state of great mental excitement and under the influence of hallucinations. She had gone to bed apparently well, but during the night was the subject of a vivid dream, imagining that she saw her sister, long since dead and to whom she was much attached, suffering the pains of hell. When quite awake, no one could persuade her that she had been under the influence of an agitated dream. She stoutly persisted in maintaining the reality of her vision. During the whole of that day she was clearly insane; but on the following morning her mind appeared to have recovered its balance. She continued tolerably well, mentally, for four years, with the exception of her occasionally having moments of despondency arising from real or fancied troubles.” * * * The further particulars of this case, relating as they do to another division of the subject,--“sleep-drunkenness,” as the Germans designate it,--will be considered under that head. Without pretending to indorse all the conclusions of Albers,--as set forth in the following summary, and which I quote from a very learned and philosophical writer,[93]--there is no doubt that some of his dicta are well founded. “Lively dreams are in general a sign of the excitement of nervous action. “Soft dreams are a sign of slight irritation of the head; often in nervous fevers announcing the approach of a favorable crisis. “Frightful dreams are a sign of determination of blood to the head. “Dreams about fire are in women signs of an impending hemorrhage. “Dreams about blood and red objects are signs of inflammatory conditions. “Dreams about rain and water are often signs of diseased mucous membranes and dropsy. “Dreams of distorted forms are frequently a sign of abdominal obstructions and diseases of the liver. “Dreams in which the patient sees any part of the body especially suffering, indicate disease in that part. “Dreams about death often precede apoplexy, which is connected with determination of blood to the head. “The nightmare (incubus ephialtes), with great sensitiveness, is a sign of determination of blood to the chest.” A very interesting paper on dreaming, by Dr. Thomas More Madden,[94] has been recently published, and from it I make the following extract: