[418] Abbé Saglier, Vie de Saint Jean de Dios; M. duCamp, La Charité à Paris, 1885.
[419] It is a curious point, that all these saints (Lazzaretti, Loyola, &c.) began by leading a wild life.
[420] Maxime du Camp, Souvenirs Littéraires, 1882 (2nd ed.)
[421] See the paper on David Lazzaretti, by Nocito and Lombroso, in the Archivio di Psichiatria, 1881, vol. i. fasc. ii. iii.; Verga, Lazzaretti e la pazzia sensoria, Milan, 1880; Caravaggio, Inchiesta e Relazione su Arcidosso, 1878, Gazzetta Ufficiale, for October 1, No. 321.
[422] Signes physiques des manies raisonnantes, 1876.
[423] Verga, Lazzaretti, 1880.
[424] At Pesaro I had under my care several nuns from Roman convents, whose language I never heard surpassed in obscene blasphemy. I have also attended exceedingly devout Jews, whose first symptom was the wish to be baptised, and who, immediately after their recovery, became more orthodox than before.
[425] Deposition of the witness Vichi.
[426] His first arrest took place in the island of Monte Cristo, for preaching sedition among the fishermen. Thence, he was transferred to Orbetello (see Verga, Su Lazzaretti e la follia sensoria, 1880).
[427] Nocito and Lombroso, Davide Lazzaretti (Archivio di Psichiatria, 1880, ii. Turin). In this article are detailed the causes of the error into which the experts fell—an error which cost the country an enormous expenditure and several human lives.