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Lucie remembered nothing of her hypnotic states and the sug- 

 gestions given in them, but Adrienne could tell all about both. 

 Lucie knew nothing about her convulsive attacks. When Adri- 

 enne was questioned during a convulsion she could only write, 

 " I am afraid, I am afraid," but afterward she gave an account 

 of them which was intelligible enough, although a little inco- 

 herent. " I see a curtain first, and then hidden men, who frighten 

 me. In the country once, at grandmother's house during the 

 holidays, two men came ; then in the garden a big curtain, which 

 they put on the trees and went behind it, which frightened us, 

 and since then I have always been afraid." Lucie knew she had 

 had a fright when about seven years old, but never could tell 

 what it was. Prof. Janet does not say whether he verified this 

 story or not, but seems to regard it as true. 



So of states artificially dissociated from Lucie by suggestion. 

 Bits of paper were put in Lucie's lap, some of which were marked, 

 and she was told that she could not see those that were marked. 

 If Adrienne were asked what was in Lucie's lap, she would de- 

 scribe those only which Lucie could not see. In this way Adri- 

 enne was proved capable of distinguishing odd numbers from even 

 and of performing other simple judgments. Whenever a sug- 

 gestion was given to Adrienne, it and all that it involved were 

 withdrawn from Lucie. While Adrienne was writing the num- 

 bers Lucie could not count, and while Adrienne was writing the 

 alphabet Lucie " had forgotten it." In such cases as these the fact 

 might easily escape notice, but wheh the elements thus subtracted 

 from Lucie's consciousness were such as she would be likely to 

 miss, she supplied their place by a sort of dream of her own. 

 Thus, when Adrienne was told to put her arms above her head, 

 Lucie lost all consciousness of their true position and said they 

 were in her lap. When Prof. Janet established this fact, it sup- 

 plied the explanation of an occurrence which had puzzled him 

 not a little at the time it happened. Adrienne was told to come 

 to Dr. Povilevitch's house at a certain time, and Lucie's body 

 came. But Lucie believed herself still to be at home, and mis- 

 took the furniture for her own, while Adrienne knew perfectly 

 where she was. 



Prof. Janet desired to reverse the relative positions of the two 

 systems so as to make Adrienne speak and Lucie write, and, find- 

 ing that his suggestions to this end were unavailing, he put Lucie 

 into a deep sleep to make her more suggestible. After sleeping a 

 half hour she awoke, and to his surprise he found that he had 

 neither Lucie nor Adrienne, but a new personality derived from 

 the coalescence of both. This personality called herself Adrienne, 

 but had all Lucie's memories and sensations in addition to those 

 of Adrienne. She was more vivacious and intelligent than Lucie, 



