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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kahlbaum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Catatonic</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In memory of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ludwig had a cat, whose name was simply, 'Cat.'<br>That did mostly what<br>A cat does best<br>That is, spending most of his time at rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the good doctor<br>Who studied man's behavior<br>Spoke often to his cat<br>About the workings of the mind, and this and that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So 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, when 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 in it did dwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stupor is now called by some, 'Cat-alepsy'<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>Could arouse Cat from the bed in which it did lie<br>All (or almost all) motor activity is suppressed<br>When the cat is in this state of blissful rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when it appears that Cat's awake<br>And both eyes wide open to partake<br>Of events that are going on<br>There is no awareness that he's at home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this state of consciousness the animal's 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 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 mysterious 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 for which it's well known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cat-atonic is the state<br>to which all can now relate<br>For humans (and cats too) <br>Do what animals do.</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 memory of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum) 

Ludwig had a cat, whose name was simply, 'Cat.'
That did mostly what
A cat does best
That is, spending most of his time at rest.

But the good doctor
Who studied man's behavior
Spoke often to his ca..."></div>
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