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Serviss said, "All this is wise, but is it pertinent?"

"He's co at it 'Noe men of medicine call hysteria seems to be a violent and, in a sense, unaccountable departure from the nore in the nervous constitution Thus a girl suddenly refuses to eat, has visions, shouts, and sings uncontrollably, perhaps speaks in an unknown tongue--she is said to be hysterical A h, passes at length into a cataleptic state, during which a child's voice sounds from her throat; this, too, is hysteria A man of forty-five becomes melancholy, professes to hear , and trances in which he is able to hear distant voices, and to read sealed letters; this, too, is hysteria In reality, nothing is explained'"

"What of it?" interrupted Serviss "Let's have the application"

"He raph: 'In conformity with this habit, when called in by Mrs Lahter, who had passed suddenly into deep sleep and was speaking with the voice of her grandfather, I, with owlish gravity, pronounced her attack a case of hysteria "Take her on a little trip," said I "Keep her well nourished and out-of-doors, and she will outgrow it"'"

"Very good advice"

"So it was, but row it' He puts this in italics 'The poithin her gained into me, she continues to be a hearty, healthy child in all other ways, and yet at times she seems the calm centre of a ind of invisible forces Chairs, books, thi Electric snapping is heard in the carpet under her little feet, and loud knocking comes upon the walls--'"

"Ah!" exclai at his first visit, while the girl was at the piano

"Here he drops into italics again 'One by one all the fa reproduced by this pretty maiden here in this mountain home'"

"Good Lord, what a pity!" exclairieved and alarirl is buffeted, has been put to her paces to conceal the topsy-turvy doings of her household Stones are hurled through the s, cabinets are opened by invisible and silent lockss and can offer no explanation'" Britt closed the book "Right here the old doctor lost his nerve, up to this time he was a fairly acute observer His next entry is evidently some weeks or, possibly, months later He says: 'Sloe have learned to understand the phenomena, but we cannot control them, and the child is still cruelly es as she visits her friends or as she sits in her seat in school She has becoht whenever the noises begin'"