Mrs. T., admitted May 10th, 1852. Age 34; married. An intelligent woman of kindly and somewhat melancholy disposition, active habits, and nervo-bilious temperament. First attack; duration 14 days; assigned cause, religious excitement; was nursing her fifth child. Fancied that her husband and other relations were going to murder her, and were plotting against her, and expressed many delusions of a religious character. Had attempted suicide by precipitation. There was hereditary predisposition to insanity. Her general health was good.