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for her position in life, but melancholy, morose and taciturn, 
with a strong will, and very industrious at needlework. She 
suffered from frequent hsematopsies, complained of pains in the 
Lead, and hysterical symptoms. She was very anxious about 
her condition. Her acts and conversations showed no intel- 
lectual defect, but her affective sentiments were feebly developed. 
Nearly every day, without any perceptible cause, she suffered 
what she called her “ crisis,” and entered into the second state. 
All of a sudden, with her work on her knees, a violent pain shot 
through her temples, her head dropped upon her breast, her 
arms fell by her side, and she passed into a sort of sleep from 
which neither noises, pinches, nor pricks could awaken her. 
This lasted two or three minutes, but had formerly been longer. 
She woke up in quite another state, smiling gaily, speaking 
briskly, and trilling (Jredonnant ) over her work, which she re- 
commenced at the point she left it. She would get up, walk 
actively, and scarcely complained of any of the pains she had 
suffered so severely a few minutes before. She busied herself 
about the house, paid calls, and behaved like a healthy young 
girl of her age. In this state she remembered perfectly all that 
had happened in her two conditions. In this second life, as in 
the other, her moral and intellectual faculties, though different, 
were incontestably sound. After a time, which in 1858 lasted 
three or four hours, the gaiety disappeared, the torpor suddenly 
ensued, and in two or three minutes she opened her eyes and 
re-entered her ordinary life, resuming any work she was engaged 
in just where she left off. In this state she bemoaned her con- 
dition, and was quite unconscious of what had passed in the 
previous state. If asked to continue a ballad she had been sing- 
ing, she knew nothing about it, and if she had received a visitor 
she believed she had seen no one. The forgetfulness extended 
to everything which happened during her second state, and not 
to any ideas or information acquired before her illness. In 
1858 her hysterical condition was well characterised, and in 
what M. Azam calls her “ normal state ” she could not taste 
nauseous pills; her sense of smell was deadened, and many 
points on her body were without sensation. The least emotion 
brought on convulsions without complete ]oss of consciousness. 
At this period occurred what M. Azam calls an u epipheno- 
menon ” of the attack, which he saw only two or three times, 
and Tvhich a young man she married only saw thirty times in 
sixteen years. Instead of waking as usual from her second 
state, she did it in a fit of terror, and recognised no one but her 
husband. This did not last long, and it was only on such 
■occasions that anything like hallucination was observed. Her 
two mental conditions were strikingly exhibited in reference to 
an incident of courtship preceding her marriage to a young 
