The Face of Rosenfeld — page 15: what you’re looking at

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8 THE FACH OF ROSENFEL. as much as did his gray-haired colleague from the hu- miliating confession: ‘‘I don’t understand the case at all.” . . The elder physician was certainly in no haste to pro- nounce a verdict. Called for the purpose of aiding his younger associate to arrive at a definite conclusion as to the nature of the mysterious malady under which the patient suffered, he had as yet refrained from expressing an opinion, and now he spoke in the most guarded and cautious manner: ‘“Tt seems to me, Lamar, that the problem in this case narrows itself down to a question as to whether the patient’s present condition is due to the blow she is known to have received upon the head or to the purely mental results of the terror caused by the accident.” ‘‘Surely,” said the younger man,” you do not wish me to understand that you believe it even possible that such a condition should be the result of simple terror or pure mental action of any kind? It seems almost certain to me that there was some structural or functional disorder prior to the accident.” ‘‘ Very possibly. I did not say to the contrary. Some of her symptoms almost seem to indicate a pressure on the brain; but a long experience in an accident hospital has made me wary of jumping to a conclusion when the symptoms are so vague and unpronounced. I have known such widely different and unexpected mental states to result from the fright incident to a loss of consciousness, under a pressure of excitement, that | am almost ready to attribute any abnormal mental state to the shock or the terror, pure and simple. Last year we had a man who had been thrown from a carriage while his horses were running away. The man completely ~~ ™e * > ¢ \ a - > > 2» & aa 7 . — ~ Pikes “§ ~ Seer ae ‘ Rae le ao - comicboo! s.com am dk Ae . Ora oy at $ , .. war ky. mead ae + > > oy ie hry eT aK ee OO 4 Yr” Vl aL rey Wt, BS iGO the eS bea Iv a 2” = - 4 * : a ee ~ ow =< oa st #} = + ag a tal