Unless I have been misinformed, he
has, for a considerable time, experienced persistent headache of a
kephalalgic or true cerebral type, and has now advanced to the succeeding
stage of taciturnity and depression, not* unaccompanied with isolation,
and probably constipation: but as yet without hallucination, though
possibly, and, as my experience of the great majority of these cases
would induce me to say, probably he is not** undisturbed by one or more
of those latent, and, at first, trifling aberrations, either of the
intelligence or the senses, which in their preliminary stages escape the
observation of all but the expert nosologist."
*Anglice, "accompanied." **Anglice, "disturbed."
"There, you see," said Osmond, "Dr. Wycherley agrees with me: yet I
assure you I have only detailed the symptoms, and not the conclusion I
had formed from them."
Jane inquired timidly what that conclusion was.
"Miss Hardie, we think it one of those obscure tendencies which are very
curable if taken in time----" Dr. Wycherley ended the sentence: "But no
longer remediable if the fleeting opportunity is allowed to escape, and
diseased action to pass into diseased organisation.
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