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Show 294 FEAR. CHAP. XII. " strong and savage features; half naked, pale as death, " agonized with terror, every limb strained in anguish, " his hands clenched convulsively, the sweat breaking " out on his bent and contracted brow, he kissed in" cessantly the figure of our Saviour, painted on the '' flag which was suspended before him; but with an " agony of wildness and despair, of which nothing ever " exhibited on the stage can give the slightest con- " ception." I will add only one other case, illustrative of a man utterly prostrated by terror. A.n atrocious murderer of two persons was brought into a hospital, under the mistaken impression that he had poisoned himself; and Dr. W. Ogle carefully watched him the next morning, while he was being handcuffed and taken away by the police. His pallor was extreme, and his prostration so great that he was hardly able to dress himself. His skin perspired; and his eyelids and head drooped so much that it was impossible to catch even a glimpse of his eyes. His lower jaw hung down. There was no contraction of any facial muscle, and Dr. Ogle is almost certain that the hair did not stand on end, for he observed it narrowly, as it had been dyed for the sake of concealment.· 'Vith respect to fear, as exhibited by the various races of man, my informants agree that the signs are the same as· with Europeans. They are displayed in an exaggerated degree with the Hindoos and natives of Ceylon. Mr. Geach has seen Malays when terrified turn pale and shake ; and Mr. Brough Smyth states that a native Australian " being on one occasion much " frightened, showed a complexion as nearly approach· " ing to what we call paleness, as can well be con· "ceived in the case of a very black man.'' Mr. Dyson Lacy has seen extre1ne fear shown in an Australian, CHAP. XII. ERECTION OF THE HAIR. ~ 295 by a nervous twitching of the hands, feet, and lips; and by the perspiration standing on the skin. Many savages do not repre s the signs of fear so much a Europeans; ~nd they often tremble greatly. With the Kafir, Ga1ka say , in his rather quaint Enalish the ~h.a~in~ "of the ~?dy i~ much experienced, andb the' yo are widely open. With savages, the sphincter muscl 8 ar.e often r laxed, just as may be ob erved in much fnghtened dogs, and as I have seen with monkeys wh n terrified by being caught. The ere~tion .of the hair.-Some of the signs of fe, r deserve a httle further consideration. Poots continual 1 y speak of the hair standing on end; Brutus savs to the ghost of Ore 'ar, "that mak'st my blood cold., and n1y " hair to stare." And Cardinal Beaufort, ~fter the murder of Gloucester exclaims, "Comb down his hair. " look, look, it stands upright." A.s I did not feei sure wh ther writers of fiction might not have appli d to man what they had often ob~erved in animal -- I begged for information from Dr. Crichton Browne w'ith re ~pect to the in ane. He states in answer that he has r peat dly s en their hair erected und r the influence o! sudden and extreme terror. For instance, it is occasw~ ally necessary to inject morphia under the skin of an Insan~ woman, who ?reads ~he operation extrem ly, th~ugh. It c~use.s very httle pa1n ; £ r she beli ves that poison 1s being Introduced into her system, and that h r bones will be softened, and her fie h turned into dus;t. She becomes .deadly pale; b r limbs are stiffened by a sort of tetanic spasrn, and her hair is partially erected on the front of the head. ?r· ~row~e further remarks that the bristling of the llair ~h1ch 1~ so common in the insane, is not always associated w1th terror. It is perhaps most frequently |