PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 181 
Cases of Mental Disturbance after Injury to the Head, 
with particular reference to Loss of Memory. 
By F. Norton Mannie, M.D., Inspector-General of the Insane. 
[Read before the Medical Section of the Royal Society of N.S.W., 
20 June, 1884.] 
CasE 1.—Some years ago a neighbour and friend adage —— 
with a generally dishevelled appearance at my office, an rmed 
not feeling very well he had come direct to me. is manner was 
so strange that I thought it best to see fin home, and during the 
short walk thither he repeated to me over and over again, with 
wearisome reiteration, the detailed ary of his fall. I left him in 
bed, with strict injunctions to stay there, and then found the man 
who had witnessed the accident, and discovered that the account 
given to me was correct, that the head had struck the ground, and 
that there was insensibility for two or three minutes. The next 
atient remembered everything up to the time of the 
fall, even the fall itself and the cause of it, but all else was a blank. 
The assistance rendered him to remount his horse, his visit to me, 
rec memory. N 
followed ; ees at first troublesome, disappeared in two or three 
days, and after some days rest and quiet my patient resumed his 
ordinary professional work, apparently none the worse for the acci- 
dent. Such case not uncommon, and are indeed met with by 
most medical men in awe practice. Their main interest lies in 
the loss of memory, on which I shall have something further to 
ats the next case, which was under the care of Dr. R. J. Garden, 
the loss of memory extended over a longer period, and the injury 
more severe. 
Case 2.—A man when drunk fell down a stone staircase, lighted 
nose and left ear. There was Sonate, with relaxed muscles, 
pallor, cold surfaces, regular somewhat dilated pupils, and shallow 
