ABSTRACT
PLUTARCH BORROWED from an earlier writer the statement ‘If the body sued the mind for damages, the mind would be found to have been a ruinous tenant to its landlord’. Psychosomatic studies have been an extended homily on this text, pointing to the bodily havoc which emotional disorder can produce. There is, of course, a counter-accusation, in which the mind arraigns the body for giving rise to deliria, dementia and many more subtle disturbances.
