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tion ready for my sufferings, of which I can only say that it had 

 something to do with the navy, that it was sheer undiluted non- 

 sense, had neither end nor beginning, and was insusceptible of 

 being expressed in words. Myself knew this ; yet I gave way, and 

 my watcher was favored with some reference to the navy. Nor 

 only that : the other fellow was annoyed or I was annoyed on 

 two inconsistent accounts ; first, because he had failed to make 

 his meaning comprehensible, and, second, because the nurse dis- 

 played no interest. Tlie other fellow would have liked to explain 

 further, but viyself was much hurt at having been got into this 

 false position, and would be led no further." 



Now, when such a disordinated system obtains complete con- 

 trol of the body, the patient is wholly insane. Not, of course, 

 that every case of insanity belongs to this type, but that every 

 case of this type belongs to insanity. The normal consciousness 

 is then supposed to be wholly extinct, but there is no reason for 

 believing that it necessarily must be. Take for example a case 

 observed by the late Dr. Ira Barrows, of Providence, R. I., and 

 printed by Prof. James.* The patient was a girl of nineteen. I 

 make only a few extracts from Dr. Barrows's notes. 



"September 17, 1860. Wild with delirium. Tears her hair, 

 pillowcases, bedclothes, both sheets, night dress, all to pieces. 

 Her right hand prevents her left hand, by seizing and holding it, 

 from tearing out her hair, but she tears her clothes with her left 

 hand and teeth. 



" 29t'h. Complains of great pain in right arm, more and more 

 intense, when suddenly it falls down by her side. She looks at it 

 in amazement. Thinks it belongs to some one else ; is positive it 

 is not hers. . . . She bites it, pounds it, pricks it, and in many 

 ways seeks to drive it from her. She calls it ' Stump, old 

 Stump ! ' 



" January 10, 1862. When her delirium is at its height, as well 

 as at all other times, her right hand is rational, asking and answer- 

 ing questions in writing ; giving directions ; trying to prevent 

 her tearing her clothes ; when she pulls out her hair, it seizes and 

 holds her left hand ; when she is asleep, it carries on conversation 

 the same ; writes poetry ; never sleeps ; acts the part of the nurse 

 as far as it can ; pulls the bedclothes over the patient, if it can 

 reach them, while uncovered ; raps on the headboard to awaken 

 her mother (who always sleeps in the room) if anything occurs, 

 as spasms, etc." 



" Old Stump " made no statements, so far as the account goes, 

 about its own identity. It always spoke of the patient in the third 

 person as " Anna," but that is common in changes of personality. 



* Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. i, p. 552. 



