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'Mental disorder of a dangerous character has been known for years to be stealthily advancing, without exciting the slightest notion of its presence, until some sad and terrible catastrophe, homicide, or suicide, has painfully awakened attention to its existence.

Persons suffering from latent insanity often affect singularity of dress, gait, conversation, and phraseology.

The most trifling circumstances stimulate their excitability.

They are martyrs to ungovernable paroxysms of passion, are inflamed to a state of demoniacal fury by the most insignificant of causes, and occasionally lose all sense of delicacy of feeling, sentiment, refinement of manners and conversation.

Such manifestations of undetected mental disorder may be seen associated with intellectual and moral qualities of the highest order.' In another place, Dr.Winslow again adverts to this latter symptom, which was strikingly marked in the case of Lord Byron:-- 'All delicacy and decency of thought are occasionally banished from the mind, so effectually does the principle of thought in these attacks succumb to the animal instincts and passions.