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tnent under which he laboured after a time passed away. He 

 endeavoured to speak, but unintellicribly. He walked upstairs un- 

 assisted, wound up his watch, went to bed, and slept well. The 

 following morning it was discovered that he was completely deof, the 

 loudest noises not being perceived. His sight seemed good, and there 

 was no motor paralysis of any kind. In speaking he used wrong 

 words, so as to be utterly unintelligible. Dr. Banks says, " he cer- 

 tainly recognized me, and was glad to see me, but misnamed me; 

 saying something, but using words without meaning. We endea- 

 louredto communicate with him by writing, but it was evident that 

 he did not understand it. ' Have you pain ? ' was written, and he 

 looked at it and said, ' Good, good God;' appearing to read what 

 was written." He attempted to write letters frequently, and his 

 address was written two or three times at the head of the sheet 

 of paper, some of the words being imperfect. ' My dear Sir,' was 

 written correctly. The sheet was filled^ with writing, but no word 

 except 'tvife' was legible, the rest being utterly meaningless ; some 

 letters were correctly formed, but no ivords until the end, where his 

 name was signed with a steady hand and in his usual manner. 

 He varied, however, in his power of writing at different times; 

 occasionally when wished to sign his name, he could not be induced 

 to do so, and " only scribbled some unintelligible words." It was 

 imi)Ossible to get him to understand anything ; and his meaning 

 could only be guessed at by his gestures, and by the very few 

 words at his command, which were almost always misapplied. 



At the beginning of April a remittance was due from his agent, 

 and each morning he was much excited, asking frequently for 

 something. At length it occurred to one of the family to show 

 him his agent's letter, which seemed to please him ; but he was not 

 quite satisfied till the money was brought and counted before him. 

 Some shillings were not shown to him at first, but when he saw 

 them he appeared to know all was right, and, on the money being 

 handed to his wife, he seemed content. His feelings of affec- 

 tion for his wife seemed to be intensified; but there was some 

 amount of emotional weakness. 



He occasionally for a time made use of some one word, applying 

 it in the most varied ways. Wishing to inform Dr. Kidd that a 

 Kniment which he had been using was nearly finished, he said, 

 pointing to the bottle, *' Bring the cord." On another occasion, 

 speaking of pills he had been taking, he said he had taken 

 "potatoes.*' Very frequently there was some similarity in the 



