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or shocked with electricity, he gave no sign of sensation, he could 

 walk about, eat, drink, dress and undress himself, make up cigarettes, 

 light them with a match, and smoke one after another ; and write intel- 

 ligent letters. He would eat or drink anything given him, even the 

 most nauseous. It is scarcely doubtful that he did all these through 

 touch impressions alone, which acted in part reflexly through the lower 

 ganglia, spinal cord, medulla oblongata, &c. , and automatically and yet 

 unconsciously through the cerebrum. The operation of writing letters, 

 for example, required the action of some of the customary internal 

 sense organs. 



On one occasion he was walking in the garden under some large trees. 

 His cane, with a bent head, was put into his hand, which appeared to 

 impress his brain that it was a gun, and led to a train of associated 

 memories connected with picket duty. After seeming to listen he called 

 put, "Henri !" then, "here they come, they are at least 20. Let us go 

 at them, we will get the best of them. " Then he went through the mo- 

 tion of loading his gun, threw himself on the grass in the position of a 

 sharp-shooter, pointing his gun, and with it following the movements of 

 Ms enemy. 



' ' The ex-sergeant has a good voice, and had at one time been em- 

 ployed as a singer at a cafe. In one of his abnormal states he was ob- 

 served to begin humming a tune. He then went to his room, dressed 

 himself carefully, and took up some parts of a periodical novel which 

 lay on his bed, as if he were trying to find something. Dr. Mesnet, 

 suspecting that he was seeking his music, made up one of these into a 

 roll and put it into his hand. He appeared satisfied, took up his cane, 

 and went down stairs to the door. Here Dr. Mesnet turned him round, 

 and he walked quite contentedly in the opposite direction, toward the 

 room of the concierge. The light of the sun shining through a window 

 now happened to fall upon him, and seemed to suggest the footlights of 

 the stage on which he was accustomed to make his appearance. He 

 stopped, opened his roll of imaginary music, put himself in the atti- 

 tude of a singer, and sang with perfect execution, three songs, one 

 after the other, after which he wiped his face with his handkerchief, 

 and drank without a grimace a tumbler of strong vinegar and water 

 which was put into his hand." 



" Sitting at a table, in one of his abnormal states, he took up a pen, 

 felt for paper and ink, and began to write a letter to his general, in 

 which he recommended himself for a medal on account of his good 

 conduct and courage. It occurred to Dr. Mesnet to ascertain experi- 

 mentally how far vision was concerned in this act of writing. He 

 therefore interposed a screen between the man's eyes and his hands ; 

 under these circumstances he went on writing for a short time, but the 



