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f i-Mgments. After this, she began arranging the fragments she had made 

 into rude imitations of roses and other flowers, an indication, it would 

 seem, of a beginning in the construction of new memory organs in tho 

 cerebrum; since it is scarcely to be supposed that such memories could 

 be developed in connection with the lower ganglia. Next, she was 

 taught, by a little instruction, to make patchwork, and she pursued this 

 occupation every day without intermission, till stopped by darkness. 

 After this she was instructed in worsted work, in which she was equall} 7 

 assiduous. Her memory of her work never lasted over night, she be- 

 gan something new each morning instead of continuing "her work of the 

 day before, unless it were placed before her. She had a lover, who, 

 during the early part of her illness, came every day to see her. His 

 presence was agreeable to her from the first, but after a time she came 

 to anticipate his coming, and to show disappointment if he did not 

 come. So memory organs came to be formed with reference to him. 

 She gradually acquired a stock of memories on various subjects con- 

 nected with her experience and occupations at that time. But these 

 were grouped to themselves, and not connected in any way with the 

 cerebral memories of the period before the accident. They constituted 

 a new family and a second mental state entirely disconnected from the 

 first. At this period she was subject to emotional excitement, which 

 three or four times a day threw her into a condition of insensibility, ac- 

 companied by a spasmodic rigidity. She also fell into this state after 

 her attention and her eyes had been for a long time intently fixed upon 

 her work. Nearly a year after the accident, she found out that her 

 lover was paj'ing attention to another woman, and the jealousy aroused 

 thereby often brought on her fits of insensibility, and one of these at 

 last, of unusual severity, had the remarkable effect to restore her to the 

 mental life she had experienced before her accident. She awoke as if 

 from a sleep of a year, the events of which were now a perfect blank to 

 her, as she remembered nothing of what had taken place during that 

 time. She was restored to her former memories and stock of knowl- 

 edge, and to the faculty of speech, and the use of all her senses except 

 hearing. This, however, gradually returned to her. Whatever mem- 

 ories she had constructed during the year of her illness, were totally 

 unassociated with those belonging to the period before the accident. 

 The first spasm laid an embargo of paralysis upon all the cerebrum then 

 differentiated into memory organs, together with their nerve connections. 

 The final spasm raised that embargo and placed it on the memory or- 

 gans formed after the accident. We shall meet with further examples 

 of this sort. By comparing the actions performed by this patient dur- 

 ing the first half of her illness, with what is said in chapter 60, it ap 

 pears that a very considerable part of them may have been automatic 



