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of special support in order to preserve the wright required for the elementary reassurance of the pt. This was explained to me by an eminent neurologist who sometimes functioned as a "neuropsychiatrist", and in that capacity, brought into the hospital a category of cases known as "agitated depression." These wretched persons said nothing that I can remember, and did nothing but lie on their beds and thrash around so unremittingly that we had to attach foam-rubber rings to their neck to prevent them from grinding the skin off. In fact that was about the only service we were allowed to render to the agitated depressives, except to accompany Dr. X. as he made his rounds among them. Dr. X was rather a diminutive man with a quite formidable cranium which was - crossed out said to be full of diagnostic acumen. His entrance into the room of an agitated depression was always the same, slow judicious steps to the bedside, flanked by the nervous shuffling of the resident, the intern and a couple