From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



the present connection and from the general human 

 point of view, that we think it useful to translate and 

 reproduce here, part of an address by Dr Augustin 

 Iturricha, President of the Anthropological Society of 

 Sucre (Chuquisaca, Bolivia), at a session of that 

 society : 



1 Here, moreover, are facts still more surprising 

 from the clinic of Dr Nicholas Ortiz, which Dr 

 Domingo Guzman has had the kindness to com- 

 municate to me. The authenticity of the observations 

 cannot be doubted, they proceed from two authorities 

 of high standing in our scientific world. 



* The first case refers to a boy of 12 to 14 years 

 of age, who died in full use of his intellectual faculties 

 although the encephalic mass was completely detached 

 from the bulb, in a condition which amounted to real 

 decapitation. What must have been the stupefaction 

 of the operators at the autopsy, when, on opening 

 the cranial cavity, they found the meninges heavily 

 charged with blood, and a large abscess involving 

 nearly the whole cerebellum, part of the brain and 

 the protuberance. Nevertheless the patient, shortly 

 before, was known to have been actively thinking. 

 They must necessarily have wondered how this could 

 possibly have come about. The boy complained of 

 violent headache, his temperature was not below 

 39 C. (io2.2F.) ; the only marked symptoms 

 being dilatation of the pupils, intolerance of light, 

 and great cutaneous hyperesthesia. Diagnosed as 

 meningo-encephalitis. 



' The second case is not less unusual. It is 

 that of a native aged 45 years, suffering from cerebral 

 contusion at the level of Broca's convolution, with 

 fracture of the left temporal and parietal bones. 

 Examination of the patient revealed rise of tempera- 

 ture, aphasia, and hemiplegia of the right side. The 



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