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night aroused her with the exclamation, "Come, Nancy, it is time to 

 get up and play the trick on John." She was now back in her second 

 state, and her mental activities recommenced where they were broken 

 off that night in Meadville. 



During the last 25 years of her life, nothing extraordinary happened 

 to her. At one time she taught school, and gave satisfaction. She 

 was a consistent member of a church. During her last years she lived 

 with her nephew, Dr. John Y. RejTiolds, and superintended his house- 

 hold affairs in an acceptable manner. In accordance with a wish she 

 often expressed in the phrase, " sudden death, sudden glory, " her death 

 was sudden. In apparently usual health, she was engaged about some 

 domestic matter, when suddenly she raised her hands to her head, ex- 

 claiming, " Oh, what is the matter with my head !" She fell to the 

 floor in a state of insensibilit}-, and was at once carried to a sofa, where 

 in a few moments she breathed her last. Her tombstone in the ceme- 

 tery at Meadville bears her favorite phrase : Sudden Death, Sudden 

 Glory. 



There is much in this case to countenance the theory of the second 

 place occupied b}^ the right hemisphere. Supposing the left hemisphere 

 to have been the organ of the first person, it had received all the educa- 

 tion for the first 18 years of the lady's life, and when it came to be in- 

 hibited, the right side was brought to the front, and exhibited its in- 

 herited instincts to be very different from those of the other side ; and 

 while in many respects more desirable, they belonged to a less restrained 

 and mature age of civilization. 



The alternate shifting from one side to the other, of the spasm, which 

 caused the inhibition of first one hemisphere and then the other, has 

 many parallels in other cases, and can often be accomplished artincially 

 by the use of metals or magnets, and in such cases seems to be due to 

 some disturbance of the magnetic and nervous fields of force surround- 

 ing the nervous system. But the details of the action have not been 

 ascertained. 



Dr. Brown-Sequard gives an account of a boy whom he met at 

 Netting Hill, London, who had two mental lives. Generally once a day 

 and about the same hour he would suddenly become motionless in the 

 position he happened to be in, whether standing or sitting, his head 

 would droop forward, his e} r es close, and for one or two minutes he 

 seemed to be asleep. Then he would start up again and appear bright 

 and alert. But as it was ascertained, during this brief sleep he was 

 accustomed to pass into a second mental condition totally severed from 

 the first. The time he remained in this second state lasted from one to 

 three hours when he again passed through a brief period of sleep, and 

 emerged again in his first state. His memories in the two states were 



