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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Catatonic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1874, Karl Ludwig sat<br>Staring at his cat<br>Wondering what scientific discovery<br>Yet awaited his uncovery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seems all the great and renown<br>Had already placed their markers down<br>And there was little to be found<br>In plowing the psychic's hallowed ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came first Aristotle<br>And others of lesser mettle<br>Who professed to understand<br>What was 'melancholy' of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Burton in his tome did write<br>Long and wide<br>Of the essence of melancholy<br>and its folly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his poem about pain and pleasure<br>He took far flung measure <br>Of what it constitutes<br>And how the mind pollutes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then along came Darwin (not the elder) <br>Who attempted to attribute to love and hunger<br>The forces of melancholy's strains<br>That caused to patients their many pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freud, who read Darwin, <br>Claimed his bit of fame<br>Expanding on Sex<br>As it did man, perplex.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kahlbaum thought it best to let be<br>What the 'Alienest' could not see.<br>So, in his records, Kahlbaum did note<br>Much about his cat, he wrote.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ‘twas described by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum<br>A state experienced by some.<br>And surely the lay public would know quite well<br>The nature of the cat and how it did dwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stupor is called by some, 'catalepsy'<br>Which is nothing more or less<br>Than the state of mind with which the cat is blessed<br>When spending most of his (or her) time at rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For no external stimuli<br>Can arouse the cat from the bed in which it lie<br>All (or almost all) motor activity is suppressed<br>When the cat is in this state of rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when it appears that the cat is awake<br>And eyes are wide open to partake<br>Of events that are going on<br>There is no awareness that he is home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this state of consciousness the animal remains rigid<br>And if not frozen, in a word, torpid.<br>Permitting the cat to remain in a fixed position<br>Unmoving, regardless of external condition. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Eureka, there's more.' He cried, <br>For another characteristic he'd spied.<br>When the cat was wide awake, <br>The tail was in motion for nothing's sake.<br>A swishing, and a twitching back and forth<br>As if moved by some other force.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I see yet another characteristic, '<br>Sometimes it can be limp as a wick, <br>And carried about like a purse<br>Relaxed as if dead or worse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what shall I call my observations<br>So my reputation will be known to all Nations? <br>Something that will ensure that Kahlbaum<br>Will trip from other's tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I have it, ' he did exclaim, <br>'It will bring me everlasting fame.'<br>It's the state<br>To which all can relate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, as time has passed, <br>Karl Ludwig's name is not recognized, <br>But his cat has world renown<br>Living the condition that is well known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Catatonic</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidi+J.+Mahtrow">Sidi J. Mahtrow</a><div class=q>
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In 1874, Karl Ludwig sat
Staring at his cat
Wondering what scientific discovery
Yet awaited his uncovery.

Seems all the great and renown
Had already placed their markers down
And there was little to be found
In plowing the p..."></div>
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