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case is reported of a man in Berlin, who, by strong emotional stimula- 

 tion, had been thrown into an excited cerebral state and was, during 

 several months, while awake, haunted by apparitions of men and women, 

 animals and birds. Another case was that of a saloonkeeper, who saw 

 a soldier tr} T ing to force himself into the house in a threatening manner, 

 and upon rushing forward to resist him, found it was a phantom. This 

 vision was supposed to have had its origin in a quarrel which he had 

 some time before with a drunken soldier. After this he had numerous 

 visions of people dead and living, which ceased after medical treatment. 

 An American in Great Britain "was seized with a severe headache, and 

 at the same time had distinct visions of his wife and family whom he 

 had left in America. " Such phantoms are common in febrile diseases, 

 or upon their approach. In one such case, a lady saw a phantom man 

 enter her room, pass the foot of her bed, and disappear in a closet on 

 the opposite side. 



A lady ' ' during a severe illness repeatedly saw her father, who re- 

 sided at the distance of many hundred miles, come to her bedside and 

 withdrawing the curtain address her in his usual voice and manner." 



A farmer returning from market one night, at a time when typhus 

 fever was prevailing in the neighborhood, and he himself had been suf- 

 fering with headache and languor, saw a bright and peculiar appearance 

 in the road which his imagination pictured as the Saviour. He was 

 greatly alarmed, galloped home, was soon down with the typhus fever, 

 and died in ten days. 



In another case, a lady returning from a party went into a dark room 

 and there saw a figure of death as a skeleton with an uplifted dart. With 

 this he seemed to strike her in the left side. She directly had a severe 

 fit of fever with inflammation in the left side, from which, however, she 

 recovered. 



A gentleman in a mild fever, was, during several weeks, visited by 

 the apparition of an old gray-headed man of benignant aspect, who al- 

 ways entered the room by a door on the left-hand side of the bed, passed 

 the end of the bed, and seated himself on a chair on the right-hand side. 

 The visits were in general daily, a day being missed occasionally, how- 

 ever. The same gentleman at another time while in health, saw a female 

 figure kneeling in the corner of the room for several seconds. 



Dr. Abercrombie also reports the case of " a clergyman who, aged 56 

 and accustomed to full living, was suddenly seized with vomiting, ver- 

 tigo and ringing in his ears, and continued in rather an alarming condi- 

 tion for several days. During this time he had the sound in his ears of 

 tunes most distinctly played and in accurate succession. This patient 

 had at the same time a very remarkable condition of vision, such as I 

 have not heard of in any other case. All objects appeared to him inverted. 



