The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. THE SICK KAISER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 32, 13 January 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. THE SICK KAISER

Recent messages which have been allowed to pass the censorship of Berlin indicate that Kaiser Wilhelni is a sick mn.i 'doomed to a fate similar to that of his father, Frederick 111, who was suffering, from cancer when he came to. the throne in March, 1888, and who wielded the sceptic in Germany for less than three months, dying on the loth June of the same year. The present Kaiser is known to have suffered for years

past with a recurring throat trouble, believed to be similar to that which caused his father's death. Some medical authorities believe that the megalomania, of which he is an admitted victim, is due to the disease from which the Kaiser is suffering. Dr. J. W. White, Ph. !)., L.L.D., of Philadelphia, who has devoted a good deal of attention to a study of .the war. and whose admirable text book, "America and Germany," is described as "one of tin 1 most illuminating books that the war lias brought forth," says that "the Kaiser is, in all probability a neuropyschopathic" (nerve ridden and mentally deranged) "with a chronic and recurring affection of the middle ear (a not unknown cause of grave cerebral disease) and evincing many of the symptoms of the condition known as paranoia" (chronic insanity). "in which there are usually present more or less definitely systematised delusions, the other mental processes remaining approximately normal. That many Germans in high places know and realise the condition of their wretched monarch was made -evident even before the war by the apologetic references to Willielm's attacks of

"ui'.ijij'-'Hhmcoijs nervosity," us an ex-,-]is<- for iitlierw ise inexcusable outbur, ts of pompous folly on many occasions, while Dr. While speaks of the "delirium of grandeur" with which "the- Kaiser appears to be afflicted, " and point- out thai on account of its frequency in all ordinary lunatics the disease is one with which most medical men are familiar. The feverishness of Wilhehn's life since \ujTtist 19M hns iloniilles helped to accentuate the disease whicli must in time claim its victim.