Shakespeare has used the character of “Achilles” to pourtray in vivid language his own conception of a malady of the mind which modern pathologists choosing to consider have made familiar to us under the term of “General Paralysis.” Doubtless, the recognition of this as a distinct phase of insanity necessitating confinement in an asylum dates from comparatively recent times, but Shakespeare not only remarked and described the chief symptoms, but also noted them as constituting a disease of the mind, though probably he would not have classed those so afflicted with the rest of “Bedlam Beggars.”.