This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...on coming to themselves, have no recollection of what they said or did, but each crisis brings back the recollection of the preceding crisis. There are exceptions to this law, but they are rare. Macario's narrative has often been cited, of a girl who having been violated during a fit of somnambulism, had no cognizance ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...on coming to themselves, have no recollection of what they said or did, but each crisis brings back the recollection of the preceding crisis. There are exceptions to this law, but they are rare. Macario's narrative has often been cited, of a girl who having been violated during a fit of somnambulism, had no cognizance of the fact on awakening, but who in her next somnambulistic state made it known to her mother. Dr. Mesnet witnessed a patient's attempt at suicide made with a good deal of judgment during two consecutive fits of somnambulism. A young maid servant every evening for three months thought she was a bishop, acting and speaking in that character; and Hamilton speaks of a poor apprentice who as sooa /j, ashe fell asleep believed himself to be the H father of a family, wealthy, a senator: every ft night he would recount his story in due order, in a loud voice, and if any one asked him about his apprenticeship, he would say that he was no apprentice. But it is useless to multiply examples; they exist in abundance, and they all show that side by side with the normal memory there is formed, during paroxysms, a partial, temporary, parasitic memory. In summing up the general characters of periodic amnesia as exhibited in the phenomena, we find in the first place the formation of two memories. In the perfect form of periodic amnesia (e. g., Macnish's case) the two memories are mutually exclusive--the one appearing, the other disappears. Each suffices for itself; each has, so to speak, its own outfit. That organized memory whereby we are able to speak, write, read, is not common to the two states, but for each state there is formed a distinct memory of words, and of graphic signs, and of the mode of tracing them. In the incomplete form (cases reported by Aza..
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