Tower of Manila Cathedral after the Earthquakes 1880.
Suburb of Malate after a typhoon, October, 1882, when 13 ships were driven ashore.
Running amok marks a climax of nerve disturbance, when the sufferer, instead of committing suicide, prefers to die killing others.
He usually obtains his wish, and is killed without compunction, like a mad dog.
Both natives and white residents are at times in rather a low condition of health, and if after exercise or labour they fail to get their meal at the proper time, when it comes they cannot eat. In its lighter form this is called desgána or loss of appetite, but I have seen natives collapse under such circumstances with severe headache and chills. This more serious form is known as traspaso de hambre, and is sometimes the precursor of fever and nervous prostration.
The Roman Catholic Church has had the wisdom to recognise and make allowance for the liability of residents and natives of the Philippines to this serious disorder, and has relaxed the usual rules of fasting, as being dangerous to health.
Amongst the Europeans who have been long in the Islands, many are said to be “chiflado,” a term I can only render into English by the slang word cracked. This occurs more particularly amongst those who have been isolated amongst the natives.