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portment manifesting itself when the left side was in operation. This 

 corresponds with wnat appeared in Gage's case, and also with the cir- 

 cumstance in the case of Sergeant F. , that he had a disposition to steal 

 when not balanced by the sound action of the left side. 



But it appears in the case of Louis V. that there is a further subdi- 

 vision of the hemispheres, and that he has six personalities instead of 

 two. This would happen if different patches of brain cells were peri- 

 odically, alternately, deprived of blood by nervous derangement. We 

 have already met with cases of such partial inhibition in cases of 

 aphasia and loss of special memories, both temporary and permanent. 

 (See pages 679, 680. ) 



Feli da X. is the name by which a French patient is known, who, like 

 Maty R , had a first and a second state, the latter much superior to, and 

 more desirable than the former, for while in it she is free from the ner- 

 vous pains and inferior, morbid, moral state which troubled her child- 

 hood. In her second state she is cheerful and active in her attention to 

 duty, to her children and her shop, and if this is her abnormal state it 

 is a great improvement on the normal one. 



In the lunatic asylums ' ' we find duplicated individual^ in its gro- 

 tesquer forms. We have the man who has always lost himself, and in- 

 sists on looking for himself under the bed. We have the man who 

 maintains that there are two of him, and sends his plate a second time, 

 remarking, 4 1 have had plenty, but the other fellow has not. ' We have 

 the man who maintains that he is himself and his brother, too, and when 

 asked how he can be both at once, he replies, 'Oh, by a different mother. ' ' 



The right side of the brain (and left side of body) is more subject 

 to paralysis than the left. Among 121 cases of paralysis cited by 

 Brown-Sequard, 97 arose from disease of the right side of brain, and 

 24 from left. The left side of brain is the biggest, and gets the most 

 blood. There is no left-handed race on earth. Parrots, even, generally 

 perch on the right leg. " Cases have occurred in which the left side of 

 a child's brain has become diseased before the child has learned to talk. 

 In such cases, the child has learned to talk as well as if the left side of 

 the brain had been sound." ( The parents of such children have been 

 right-handed. ) Not only so, but the movement of the limbs was learned 

 and practiced just as well, showing that one side was competent to as- 

 sume the whole duty. These children were, however, left-handed. 



It is rare that the leg is as much affected by paralysis as the arm, 

 which seems to indicate that the leg is partly connected with both sides. 

 Adults who have lost the power of speech from disease of the left 

 brain, may still recover it by practice, evidently by educating the right 

 side, just as in case of paralysis of right arm, the left has been edu- 

 cated to become dextrous. 



