186 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. \ 
recollections are obliterated ; whilst the feelings and emotions which 
are the most profound, the most common, and the most tenacious 
of the phases of mental activity, and the organic acquisitions, the 
aptitude for mechanical work, the routine of daily life, and the 
cerebral ganglia—the medulla and spinal chord,—remain until the 
last. Pathological destruction indeed appears to attack first, and 
in many cases to be limited to the most highly developed and 
most unstable forms of memory, to those which have a personal 
racter, are accompanied by a consciousness and localization in 
a logical order, it advances progressively from the unstable to the 
It begins with the most recent recollections which, lightly 
im ressed upon the nervous elements, rarely repeated, and conse- 
quently having no permanent er ear represent organization 
in its feeblest forms, and it ends wit e sensorial instinctive 
consi which becomes a permanent ond integral part of the 
and represents 0 in its most highly developed 
impression is faint and soon effaced, whilst new modifications and 
dynamical associations of cells are either impossible, “ if a 
are not permanent. Bearing these facts in mind, and turning to 
nervous centres, due to a nervous “discharge” during the paroxysms, 
but there is probably at the same time a disordered 7 Of 
after the “discharge” has Foe and interferi al in 
nutrition of the cerebral. m is a 
