Abstract
A formal summary of a subject of this character is impossible but from the above analysis it would seem clear that the average eloper is not the bad of popular fancy. Certainly, there is no justification for the terrifying picture so often painted by the press of the dangerous moron rushing madly from the asylum for the sole purpose of gratifying his perverted desires at the expense of the innocent and unprotected. Our rcords fail to disclose any grave anti-social behavior upon the part of any of the patients in either group. If, then, the popular concept of these patients is so mistaken, what is the correct one? From the above study a composite description might run something as follows: A man in the third or fourth decade; very possibly a foreigner; most probably a single man or one free from compelling family ties and rather given to alcoholic indulgence. The chances are he would be a subsided case of dementia praaecox, a recovered or improved alcoholic, a rebellious paretic, or an improved case o...
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