AUTOGRAPH

The handwriting of any one. AUTOMATISM, In medical jurisprudence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occurring without will, purpose, or reasoned intention on bis part; a condition sometimes observed 'in persons who, without, being actually in~ane, suffer from an obscuration of the mental faculties; lo of volition or of memory, or kindred affections. "Ambulatory automatism" describes the pathological im· pulse to purposele and irresponsible wanderings from place to place often characteristic of patients suffering from lo of memory with di ociation of personality. [s. 113]