Aged twenty-one, from Long Ditton, Surry, admitted 21st July 1822.
This young man’s case is very curious, for the nature of the symptoms
vary every day, without any appearance of amendment. One day he barks
like a dog; the next he will mew like a cat; a third he is a lion; on
the fourth he is a wolf; on the fifth he walks upright and stiff as a
pole; on the sixth he goes about all day with his eyes closed, groping
his way as if he were in utter darkness. He will eat his meals in the
same whim, and will only open his eyes when indispensably necessary
to find his way up or down stairs. A seventh day he will laugh from
morning till night; and some whole days he will maintain a black and
sulky aspect. As he begins in the morning, so seems his order of the
day until bed-time, still continuing to vary his mode of action every
day from that of the past. He has been a gentleman’s servant, and this
is his first attack.