Practical manual of mental medicine / with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball. Authorized translation by H. M. Bannister. With introduction by the author.

  • Régis, E. (Emmanuel), 1855-1918.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Practical manual of mental medicine / with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball. Authorized translation by H. M. Bannister. With introduction by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    graph can be employed, as has been done by M. Voisin in simulated epilepsy. Another sign is the facial expression, on which M. A. Laurent has judiciously laid stress in his excel- lent monograph on simulation of insanity. The aspect of the simulator, says that author, is furtive, changeable, and sly. The countenance indicates forced expression, an unpleasant and sig- nificant lack of harmony. The criminal simulator cannot give to his face the wild and excited appear- ance that belongs to the maniac. We recognize there only effrontery, and not mental aberration. Neither can he assume the genuine, indifferent and enfeebled expression of the dement and paretic, fixed gaze of the stuporous patient, the proud and haughty look of the monomaniac, etc. He cannot conceal the attention he gives to every word and motion of him who is charged with studying his words and gestures; and very often he casts down his eyes, distrusting the expression his looks might betray. A difference still to be noted between the genuine and the false lunatic is that the former is generally rather inclined to conceal his insanity and in any case to deny it and defend himself from the imputation, while the simulator, on the contrary, seeks constantly to give evidence of his insanity, he plumes himself on it, so to speak, and is never so extravagant as when he finds himself in the presence of those called to examine and judge him. Finally, it must not be forgotten, in expertises of