CHAPTER VIII.

Former Prevalence of Malingering in the Army; and the Motives for it--Decline of the Practice--Where most Prevalent--The means of Simulation reduced to a System--Cases of simulated Ophthalmia in the 50th Regiment--The Deception wonderfully kept up by many Malingerers--Means of Detection--Simulated Paralysis--Impudent Triumph manifested by Malingerers--Curious case of Hollidge--Gutta Serena, and Nyctalopia counterfeited--Blind Soldiers employed in Egypt--Cure, by actual cautery, of a Malingerer--Simulation of Consumption and other Diseases--Feigned Deafness--Detection of a Man who simulated Deafness--Instances of Self-mutilation committed by Soldiers--Simulation of Death 118