638 SLEEP- WAKING. 



knew how to act ; he should, however, under the doubtful cir- 

 cumstance as to identity, give the prisoner the benefit of it, and 

 discharge her. The bundle was given up to the complainant. 



" A gentleman, who was in attendance, said he had known the 

 complainant many years, and it was not an uncommon thing for 

 him to be seized with that unhappy affliction while at work on 

 the scaffold, and yet he had never met with an accident, and 

 while in that state, would answer questions put to him as though 

 he was awake." k 



Hearing was retained, as well as the sense of 'weight and re 

 sistance, and possibly sight to a certain degree ; the attack came 

 on suddenly, in the waking state ; so that the case, like that of 

 my patient, was one of partial sleep in the waking state, ecstacy 

 as it is termed, and not of partial excitement during sleep. 



An Italian nobleman, named Augustin Forari, was subject to 

 sleep-waking, and on one occasion watched by a Signor Vigneul 

 Marville, who gave the following account : 



" One evening towards the end of October, we played at 

 various games after dinner: Signor Augustin took a part in 

 them along with the rest of the company and afterwards retired 

 to repose. At eleven o'clock his servant told us that his master 

 would walk that night, and that we might go and watch him. 

 I examined him some time after with a candle in my hand ; he 

 was lying upon his back, and sleeping with open, staring, eyes. 

 We were told that this was a sure sign that he would walk in 

 his sleep. I felt his hands and found them extremely cold, and 

 his pulse beat so slowly that his blood appeared not to circulate. 

 We played at backgammon until the spectacle began. It was about 

 midnight, when Signor Augustin drew aside the bed-curtains 

 with violence, arose, and put on his clothes. I went up to him 

 and held the light under his eyes. He took no notice of it, 

 although his eyes were open and staring. Before he put on his 

 hat, he fastened on his sword-belt, which hung on the bed-post : 

 the sword had been removed. He then went in and out of 

 several rooms, approached the fire, warmed himself in an arm- 

 chair, and went thence into a closet where was his wardrobe. 

 He sought something in it, put all the things into disorder, and 

 having set them right again, locked the door, and put the key 



k Isis revelata. 



