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This form of madness is a higher grade of hy- pochondriasis, and often succeeds it It differs from it, 1. In the absence of dyspepsia, or in its cessa- tion, in consequence of the increase of morbid excitement in the brain, predominating over the disease in the stomach. 2. In a difference, or change, of the patient's opinions respecting his health, affairs and condi- tion. Instead of supposing himself to be diseased, he now denies that he has any disease; and in- stead of feeling, or complaining of misery, he is now happy in the errors which accompany his madness. 3. The errors in this form of derangement are more deeply seated than in hypochondriasm. As