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It was clear that, though his actions had been conscious, intelligent and purposive, yet his conscious activity was of a restricted kind; he seemed to have had no thought about the consequences of his action, but to have been driven on by the single strong impulse of fear, taking the form of a desire to get far away from the danger-zone." The above cases of so-called fugue typify a mental disease called hysteria.The malady is rather common, both among women and men, and takes countless forms, difficult to classify. Like other neuroses, hysteria is often left without medical attention and treatment, and only the graver cases are hospitalized. The ailment is of particular interest to us, because it manifests symptoms which, in many respects, parallel the phenomena of hypnosis. It is the consensus of medical opinion that hysteria is not caused by an organic trouble; at least, the latter could not be detected. Yet the patient may be totally or partially blind or deaf, be afflicted with the paralysis of limbs or side, suffer from fits, chorea or skin anaesthesia; or he may be a sleep-walker. Such a condition is serious enough to make any person desperate, it seems; yet surprisingly, despite the gravity of his trouble, the patient often feels no mental agonies whatever, but accepts the ailment indifferently, almost willingly.