By and by the child is felt, the physician takes it for granted, and this goes on until the great diagnostician, Time, corrects the delusion.

Then the fat disappears with remarkable speed, and the reign of this singular simulation is at an end." In the same article, Dr.Mitchell cites the two following cases under his personal observation: "I was consulted by a lady in regard to a woman of thirty years of age, a nurse in whom she was interested.

This person had been married some three years to a very old man possessed of a considerable estate.

He died, leaving his wife her legal share and the rest to distant cousins, unless the wife had a child.

For two months before he died the woman, who was very anemic, ceased to menstruate.