A Welchman, aged twenty-seven, admitted about five years since. He was
before a patient in Old Bethlem when a boy, and was discharged cured:
but at more advanced years he became again deranged; and having in a
paroxysm of frenzy murdered his mother, was sent here, where he is
constantly confined in the criminal wing.
He is extremely vicious and dangerous while the paroxysms of his
disorder continue (which do not very frequently occur), and then he
would murder indiscriminately all he met, friends or strangers; but in
his tranquil intervals he is generally quiet and well-conducted. He is
handy and industrious, and can make and mend the clothes of the other
patients, for which he is regularly paid.