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carried back into the house. A doctor who was called gave the following 
report of the symptoms: skin blue-gray; pupils dilated; respiration retarded; 
pulse weak and irregular; patient unconscious. The man regained con- 
sciousness on the following day, and complained of pains in his head, his 
stomach, and his back. On July 30, 1906, the patient was found to have 
a chronic gastritis; his hemoglobin was 125 per cent and his red-cell 
count was 6,500,000. His intelligence and sense of perception had become 
dimmed. By July, 1908, his muscles had become atrophied, and he was 
extremely emaciated. His blood examination showed the following: 
red-cell count, 5,600,000; hemoglobin, 80 per cent; lymphocytes, 32 per 
cent; polymorphonuclear leucocytes, 47 per cent; eosinophiles, 20 per 
cent. By October, 1909, his memory had failed; otherwise he was in 
about the same condition as in 1908. In 1911 he was asked the date; 
he looked for a calendar and said that he did not know whether it was © 
1910 or 1911. His perception of distances had failed also. On October 4, 
1912, he was visited by the doctor. When asked whether he recog- 
nized the doctor, he said that he had seen him before, but where and when 
he could not recall; thus he showed loss of perception of both time and 
space. He gave correctly the names of his children but could not remem- 
ber which was the eldest. In March, 1913, his condition was about the 
same. If he wandered some distance from his home he was unable to 
find his way back. Several other incidents revealed the loss of perception 
of time and space. 
Grafe and Homberger believe that the type of psychosis shown by 
this patient is identical with Korsakoff’s syndrome, in which there is. a 
loss of memory not only of things occurring before the accident but also 
of things occurring afterward. However, a careful analysis of the symp- 
toms as recorded brings out the probability that the loss of perception 
of time and space was the principal feature; and this, according to Jelliffe 
(1913), indicates cerebellar lesions. : 
Taylor (quoted by Adams, 1912) reports the case of a young man who 
worked in a chemical laboratory. The report states that the young man 
placed one or two drops of nitrobenzene on his tongue in order to remove 
the odor of a pipe he had been smoking. He repeated this action one 
and one-half hours later. In a few hours he was seized with convulsions 
and became unconscious. The coma lasted for about six hours, but the 
patient died in about fifteen hours after regaining consciousness. 
