Abstract
K. SCHMIDT, in continuation of his previous studies, reports on theories of insanity held and native healing procedures employed by the Iban, or Sea- Dayak, of Borneo. Based on their study of mental illness among the Tolai of New Britain, J. O. HOSKIN, L. G. KILOH, and J. E. CAWTE propose that the wide variety of shaking symptoms found in New Guinea, as one aspect of possession behavior, are hysterical and culturally standardized simulations of the symptoms of epilepsy.
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