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words became illegible, and he finally stopped, without manifesting any 

 discontent. On the withdrawal of the screen, he began to write again 

 where he had left off. The substitution of water for ink in the ink- 

 stand had a similar result. He stopped, looked at his pen, wiped it on 

 his coat, dipped it in the water, and began again, with the same effect. 

 On one occasion he began to write upon the topmost of ten superim- 

 posed sheets of paper. After he had written a line or two, this short 

 was suddenly drawn away. There was a slight expression of surprise, 

 but he continued his letter on the second sheet exactly as if it had been 

 the first. This operation was repeated five times, so that the fifth sheet 

 contained nothing but the writer's signature at the bottom of the page. 

 Nevertheless, when the signature was finished, his eyes turned to the 

 top of the blank sheet, and he went through the form of reading over 

 what he had written, a movement of the lips accompanying each word ; 

 moreover, with his pen he put in such corrections as were needed in that 

 part of the blank page which corresponded with the position of the 

 words which required correction in the sheets which had been taken 

 away. If the five sheets had been transparent, therefore, they would, 

 when superposed, have formed a properly written and corrected letter. 

 Immediately after he had written his letter, F. got up, walked down to 

 the 'garden, made himself a cigarette, lighted and smoked it. He was 

 about to prepare another, but sought in vain for his tobacco pouch, 

 which had been purposely taken away. The pouch was now thrust be- 

 fore his eyes, and put under his nose, but he neither saw nor smelt it, 

 but when it was placed in his hand he at once seized it, made a fresh 

 cigarette, and ignited a match to light the latter. The match was 

 blown out and another lighted match placed close before his eyes, but 

 he made no attempt to take it ; and if his cigarette was lighted for him 

 he made no attempt to smoke. All this time the eyes were vacant, and 

 neither winked nor exhibited any contraction of the pupils. From 

 these and other experiments, Dr. Mesnet draws the conclusion that his 

 patient sees some things and not others ; that the sense of sight is ac- 

 cessible to all things which are brought into relation with him by the 

 sense of touch, and, on the contrary, insensible to things which lie out- 

 side this relation. He sees the match he holds and does not see any other. " 

 In his normal state he is perfectly honest, but in the other he is an 

 inveterate thief, stealing and hiding things with much dexterity, his own 

 things among the rest. In the above performances the automatic, in- 

 stinctive action of the cerebrum was enlisted, just as in somnambulism 

 and in cases of hypnotism. Any stimulation competent to arouse one 

 of the organs of a series of associated memories, would extend to the 

 whole series, and become expressed in the corresponding motor per- 

 formances, as in the case of the songs, the picket scene, the writing, 



