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(Weeping)?

reason to [rest of line excised]

an effort of repression suddenly brought to bear on the lacrymal glands often produces a directly contrary effect to that which is desired. A physician assured me that he had found the only best means of to checking the occasional bitter weeping (?) of ladies who consulted him & who [themselves] wished to desist, was to beg them not to try & to those that nothing would relieve them so much as prolonged & copious crying.

[in margin in pencil:] (weeping chapter)

[Expression, pp. 156-7: "An old and experienced physician told me that he had always found that the only means to check the occasional bitter weeping of ladies who consulted him, and who themselves wished to desist, was earnestly to beg them not to try, and to assure them that nothing would relieve them so much as prolonged and copious crying."]

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from grief. The copious secretion of tears under extreme laughter is not confined to Europeans. [lines crossed]

Laughter & Tears

The fact of the eyes filling with tears under extreme laughter is common throughout the world:

I hear from vy various informants, that it

occurs with the Chinese, as observed in one case as stated by themselves, & with the Hindoos, women of a wild tribe in of Malays in Malacca but it occurs seldom; (a) with the Australian aborigines this was often observed according to four separate accounts (in one of which the tears are said to have run down the cheeks) a fifth account; but no so according to writer in southern Africa with two tribes of Kafirs especially the women with whom the tears often run down the face) (a) & with the Abyssinians of the north, one account by Kofu chief, & as I believe with the negros of the middle regions; & lastly in North America, in the case of two tribes, one of them remarkably savage & living isolated, in which tears were observed chiefly in the woman, ─ in the other test observed only on one occasion.

Tierra del Fuego & with the Indians of North America, though with the latter seldom. ─

(We thus see that extreme merriment & joy cause, went to directly & have [illeg] copious tears, than any other cause) (perhaps at end)

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(a); with the Dyaks of Borneo, the women often use the expression, as I hear from the Rajah C. Brooke, 'we nearly made water from laughter';

[Expression, p. 209: "So it is with the Chinese. The women of a wild tribe of Malays in the Malacca peninsula, sometimes shed tears when they laugh heartily, though this seldom occurs. With the Dyaks of Borneo it must frequently be the case, at least with the women, for I hear from the Rajah C. Brooke that it is a common expression with them to say "we nearly made tears from laughter.""]

(a) & likewise with Hottentots, as I hear from Sir Andrew Smith, who will remember now the tears made furrows down a painted face of the women. ─

[Expression, p. 209: "Sir Andrew Smith has seen the painted  face of a Hottentot woman all furrowed with tears after a fit of laughter."]

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(a) And I have distinctly observed with some persons ─ when merry smiling & when there is but little contraction of the lower orbicular muscles, there is a vy slight contraction of the upper orbicular, for the eyebrow is a little lowered.. Hence.