"I have no intention of setting up my opinion against yours, Sir Henry, but there are certain aspects of this young man's illness which are not altogether consistent with my own experience of epileptics.

As a criminologist, I have given some study to the effect of epilepsy and other nervous diseases on the criminal temperament.

For instance, this young man did not give the usual cry of an epileptic when he sprang up from the table.

And if it is merely an attack of petit mal, why is he so long in recovering consciousness ?" "The so-called epileptic cry is not invariably present, and petit mal is sometimes the half-way house to haut mal," responded Sir Henry.

"I have said that this case presents several unusual features, but, in my opinion, there is nothing absolutely inconsistent with epilepsy, combined with _furor epilepticus_.