Spiders Discharged from the Eye. Hysteric Monomania

A Case of Monomania

A man may receive a blow upon liis lieart or liis imagination as lie may receive an injury to liis brain, wliicli till, if ever, tlie effects have passed away, shall determine an eccentricity of conduct in all after-life, for which he is wholly, or in a considerable degree, irresponsible. Such a man is pro tanto to be pitied, and, if needful, shut up. If his eccentricity be of dangerous tendenc...

A Singular Case of Monomania

become his own. According to Broussais, every man was under the influence of the idee fixe, and, by his first question to the patient, he was invariably determined as to the direction in which it lay. "Are you feverish?" would he say to the sick man who came to consult him. " Very," was most frequently the reply. " Restless, hey??fidgetty at night, hey ??tormented and uneasy, hey ?" To all this...

Speeded detection and increased distraction in fear of spiders: evidence from eye movements.

Anxiety patients exhibit attentional biases toward threat, which have often been demonstrated as increased distractibility by threatening stimuli. In contrast, speeded detection of threat has rarely been shown. Therefore, the authors studied both phenomena in 3 versions of a visual search task while eye movements were recorded continuously. Spider-fearful individuals and nonanxious control part...

The hysteric event in the computation of magnetization

Spiders from some Pacific Islands

KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIDERS of the Pacific is largely the result of the work of Berland (1934, et. seqq.). He has published a number of papers dealing with the spiders of the New Caledonian and New Hebridean region; of Samoa; and of the Marquesas, Society, and Austral groups, and other islands in the southeastern Pacific. Recently I have completed a study of the spiders of Western Samoa (not yet p...