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at once told his name ; and, indeed, answered questions put 

 to her by any person, and told all their names, provided they 

 formed a chain by their hands among themselves and with Dr. 

 Joseph Frank, and he had his hand on her stomach. The woman 

 was always so obliging when the doctor had his hand on her 

 stomach, that it must have been fortunate his name was Joseph. 

 Dr. Bertrand gives several others, which had occurred up to 

 the appearance of his work in 1826 m , and contends that the 

 phenomena repeatedly appeared in the hysterical excitement of 

 the Quakers, of the Cevennes, the Nuns of Loudun, and the 

 Convulsionaires of St. Medard. 



A case more recently occured in the Jervis Street Hospital, 

 Dublin, and is recorded in a clinical lecture by Mr. Ellis. n A 

 cataleptic female, Mrs. Finn, gave no signs of hearing an .^Eolian 

 harp played close to her ears ; and, after the fit, declared she had 

 not heard it, nor recollected that cold water was dashed upon her, 

 though it had made her scream violently. She had been spoken to 

 on the epigastrium, palms, and soles, but it was not till long after- 

 wards, in thinking on what had happened to her during the last 

 two months, that she remembered having heard a voice one day on 

 the pit of her stomach. " On the occurrence of the first cataleptic 

 attack after this conversation, she was spoken to in the epigastrium 

 as previously ; and on the subsidence of the fit, she could report 

 with accuracy every word addressed to her through this region. 

 This experiment was often repeated, and always attended with 

 similar results. She could hear the lowest whisper, or the 

 ticking of a watch." 



One occurred in a man in the Hospital della Vita at Bologna, 

 in 1832, and it was probably the fame ,of this that caused 

 the same city to be happy enough soon afterwards to produce 

 another in a female who in her coma talked Latin, which she 

 had never learnt, gave an accurate anatomical description in 

 technical terms of the solar plexus, pancreas, heart, and first 

 vertebra, detailed the pathological state of a lady whom she did 

 not know, and the situation of places in Paris where she had 

 never been ; extracted roots of numbers, for instance of 4965, 



m Du Magnetisme Animal en France. Par A. Bertrand. Paris, 1826. 

 n Lancet, May 2. 1835. 



Bulletin des Sciences Medicates. Bologna, 1832, or Gazette Medicale. Paris, 

 Nov. 24. 1832. 



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