Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — Handwriting Regarded as an Index to Mental State [ARTICLE]

Handwriting Regarded as an Index to Mental State

That handwriting is regarded as an Index to certain mental conditions Is well known. If you have ever consulted a nerve specialist one -of the first questions which he will ask is, Save you paid any attention *to the way you write? Do you notice that your hand does not act with freedom or is uncertain' in its action? If so. It will help me to arrive at a better diagnosis of your case.” His years of experience tell him that any variation In script may have some special significance, that a nervous quiver or vagary has a story to relate concerning the nerves and their relation to an Individual’s mental state and thus he Is able to treat his case with greater exactness. A little scrap of paper, but how significant!