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mentally confused, was tlie prey to intense terror, saw horrible 

 visions, etc. 



She married when between sixteen and seventeen years of age, 

 and Dr. Azam lost sight of her for sixteen years. In 1876 he 

 hunted her up again, and had kept her in sight until the appear- 

 ance of his book in 1887. Considerable changes have taken place 

 in her condition. The transition states are much shorter, being 

 scarcely noticeable. Her second state has continuously gained 

 ground upon her first, so that in 1865, ten years after its first ap- 

 pearance, her life was about equally divided between them. In 

 1875 the first only recurred at long and irregular intervals and 

 lasted only a few hours. In 1887 its recurrences were rarer and 

 shorter still. Throughout her life she has been a hysteric of the 

 worst kind. She had had her sensations of touch, taste, and smell 

 impaired, she had had frequent hsemorrhages from the nose, lungs, 

 and stomach, and when excited had convulsive attacks. On one 

 occasion she had a hsemorrhage from the scalp. Red spots often 

 appear on the left side of the body and are accompanied by pain 

 and heat, frequently by swelling. One such swelling on her hand 

 burst her glove. The third state, that of panic terror and mental 

 confusion, has become much more frequent and lasts longer. With 

 advancing years and troubles her second state has become less gay 

 and careless, so that the contrast of character is not so marked, but 

 the gulf in her memories remains as wide as ever. She went to a 

 friend's funeral in the second state ; on her way home she passed 

 into the first and could not imagine what brought her into a cnr- 

 riage full of mourners. Her sister-in-law died after a long ill- 

 ness ; Fdlida passed into her first state and knew nothing of her 

 death, but, remembering her illness, inferred that she had died 

 from the mourning garb in which she found herself clad. Once 

 in her second state she grew jealous of another woman and tried 

 to hang herself, but was cut down in time by her neighbors. 

 When she recovered she expressed the wish to go into her first 

 state, for then, she said, she would forget her misery. And she 

 did, for the next time she passed into it she showed herself most 

 affectionate to the former object of her jealousy. 



The changes that take place in Fdlida's case are more far- 

 reaching than those of Ansel Bourne. Not only are large blocks 

 of memories erased, but the active side of her mind is profoundly 

 affected. Yet one would scarcely say that the two Fdlidas were 

 different people. Rather does it seem that the real F^lida is the 

 second, the one which first came to light amid the changes of 

 adolescence. It is like Ansel Bourne's case reversed, for A. J. 

 Brown is Ansel Bourne shorn of nearly all that was his; the sec- 

 ond Fdlida is the first F^lida completed by the addition of much 

 that was her birthright. 



