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and his general appearance had improved. He had no remem- 
brance of having seen me before, and I found that, though he 
recognized intimate friends who visited him, and spoke to them 
accident, and he gave a perfectly apocryphal account of how he 
came to the asylum, and imagined that he had started from some 
new diggings and not from home. The sense of taste had returned, 
and the exalted delusions, though still present, found less ready 
and frequent expression. By the middle of December, more than 
two months after admission, and more than three months after the 
his past history was connected and correct. The period from the 
accident until about one month after admission was an absolute 
blank. He was discharged at the end of December, went to 
and came and saw me in the beginning of February, 
1882, apparently quite well. In October, 1882, Dr. MacQueen 
tival hemorrhage, and other symptoms of fractured base of skull. 
When he recovered consciousness he was restless, fidgetty, and 
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