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had suffered from so severely a few minutes before. She 

 busied herself about the house, paid calls, and behaved like 

 a healthy young girl of her age. In this state she remembered 

 perfectly all that had happened in her two conditions.' (In 

 this respect her case is distinct from both the former, and is 

 quite exceptional. In fact, the inclusion of the conscious- 

 ness of both conditions during the continuance of one 

 condition only, renders her case not, strictly speaking, one 

 of double consciousness, the two conditions not being 

 perfectly distinct from each other.) * In this second life, as 

 in the other, her moral and intellectual faculties, though 

 different, were incontestably sound. After a time (which in 

 1858 lasted three or four hours), her gaiety disappeared, the 

 torpor suddenly ensued, and in two or three minutes she 

 opened her eyes and re-entered her ordinary life, resuming 

 any work she was engaged in just where she left off. In this 

 state she bemoaned her condition, and was quite unconscious 

 of what had passed in the previous state. If asked to con- 

 tinue a ballad she had been singing, she knew nothing about 

 it, and if she had received a visitor, she believed she had 

 seen no^one. The forgetfulness extended to everything 

 which happened during her second state, and not to any 

 ideas or information acquired before her illness.' Thus her 

 early life was held in remembrance during both her con- 

 ditions, her consciousness in these two conditions being in 

 this respect single ; in her second or less usual condition 

 she remembered also all the events of her life, including 

 what had passed since these seizures began ; and it was only 

 in her more usual condition that a portion of her life was 

 lost to her that, namely, which had passed during her 

 second condition. In 1858 a new phenomenon was 

 noticed as occasionally occurring she would sometimes 

 wake from her second condition in a fit of terror, recog- 

 nising no one but her husband. The terror did not last 

 long, however ; and during sixteen years of her married 

 life, her husband only noticed this terror on thirty occasions. 

 A painful circumstance preceding her marriage somewhat 



