224 ANIMAL AUTOMATISM. [LECT. 



two hundred yards, his right leg became similarly 

 affected, and he lost his senses. When he recovered 

 them, three weeks afterwards, in hospital at Mayence, 

 the right half of the body was completely paralysed, 

 and remained in this condition for a year. At present, 

 the only trace of the paralysis which remains is a 

 slight weakness of the right half of the body. Three 

 or four months after the wound was inflicted, periodi- 

 cal disturbances of the functions of the brain made 

 their appearance, and have continued ever since. The 

 disturbances last from fifteen to thirty hours; the 

 intervals at which they occur being from fifteen to 

 thirty days. 



For four years, therefore, the life of this man 

 has been divided into alternating phases short 

 abnormal states intervening between long normal 

 states. 



In the periods of normal life, the ex-sergeant's 

 health is perfect; he is intelligent and kindly, and 

 performs, satisfactorily, the duties of a hospital 

 attendant. The commencement of the abnormal 

 state is ushered in by uneasiness and a sense of 

 weight about the forehead, which the patient com- 

 pares to the constriction of a circle of iron; and, 

 after its termination, he complains, for some hours, 

 of dulness and heaviness of the head. But the 

 transition from the normal to the abnormal state 

 takes place in a few minutes, without convulsions 

 or cries, and without anything to indicate the change 

 to a bystander. His movements remain free and his 

 expression calm, except for a contraction of the brow, 



