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membered the greater part of his life, but forgot the periods 

 during which he had been in other states. 



Of the four other states of which I shall speak, the first three 

 are marked by paralysis, sometimes accompanied by contracture, 

 of the left side, right side, and lower half of the body, respective- 

 ly ; in the fourth he is free from all paralysis. With the paraly- 

 sis the sensations of the paralyzed portions, including those of the 

 special senses, are diminished or abolished. 



When paralyzed on the right side he is excitable, violent, and 

 impertinent ; smokes all the time, and bothers every one with de- 

 mands for money or tobacco. His speech is thick and almost 

 unintelligible. He fawns upon those who are kind to him, but if 

 crossed in the least flies into a rage. He professes himself an 

 atheist and ultra- radical, and desires to kill those who exact of 

 him tokens of respect. He either boasts of his thefts and justifies 

 them or denies them altogether. He remembers very little of his 

 past life, but, so far as it goes, his memory is excellent. He lives 

 chiefly on milk. 



Applying a magnet to the right arm causes difficulty in breath- 

 ing, anxiety, mental confusion, slight movements on the right 

 side ; then the paralysis, anaesthesia, etc., all pass to the left side. 

 His character is absolutely reversed. His speech is correct ; he is 

 gentle and polite ; he thinks himself too ignorant to have opin- 

 ions on questions of politics or religion. He no longer drinks 

 milk at all. Of his former life he remembers only those frag- 

 ments in which he was paralyzed in the same way. 



Upon applying a magnet to the nape of the neck, the paralysis 

 and anaesthesia pass to the lower half of the body. He is de- 

 pressed ; his speech is childish ; he can barely spell the simplest 

 syllables. He is stupid, and can not give his age correctly, but he 

 can sew quite well. His memory covers those three years only 

 during which his legs were paralyzed and in which he was taught 

 the trade of a tailor. 



Upon passing an electric current through his body, or apply- 

 ing a magnet to the top of his head, a fifth state is produced. He 

 is free from all paralysis, and finds himself transported to the day 

 when he was frightened by the viper. His muscular strength is 

 about two thirds what it was in his first state ; his character is 

 that of an amiable little boy of fourteen. While in this state he 

 fell asleep and dreamed aloud of his days at the reform school, 

 telling a lazy companion that he ought to be grateful to the kind 

 superintendent, and try his best to escape the vagabond's life 

 which was otherwise in store for him. For his own part, he said, 

 he was grateful to the judge who sent him there ; he was sick 

 and ignorant then and would have been lost, but now he proposes 

 to lead an honest life of labor. The doctors tried to keep him in 



