ABSTRACT
Hereditary taint exercises a more direct influence in the production of pubescent insanity than any other factor. Besides heredity, education, and environment, the evolution of the sexual function is another factor very influential in disturbing the mental state of the child. The child inheriting a predisposition to insanity must receive such a course of education as will tend to carry it through this important period of physical and mental development with the least possible strain upon the nervous system. Melancholia in children seems to be less serious than in adults. By far the larger number make a complete recovery. Adolescent insanity is essentially the outcome of a neuropathic constitution. It is more common in the male sex than in the female. It affects the better educated and highly strung at the period of adolescence. Paranoia is one form of insanity which occurs in young men at the period of adolescence.
