The Eyes of the Insane.
The eyea have been supposed, from the beginning of timo, to be the best indicators of the state of the mind. Whenever a novelist wants to describe the passage of a character into lunacy he speaks of " wild eyes," ♦• eyes of unnatural brightness," "vacant stares," and the like.
But medical men regard the evidence of the eyes as being utterly valueless. The eyps are strange at times, but whatever appearances they may have in the insane, they have identically the same in people of perfeob mental balanca.
In fact, there really is far more " restlessness," " wildness," " vacuity," and " unnatural brightness " in the eves of the healthy people one meets in the streets than in those of' the inmates of Seacliff .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 52
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125The Eyes of the Insane. Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 52
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