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man she had known from childhood. One day, when more than 
usually sad, she told the doctor she was getting worse, that she 
was enlarging, and suffered from nausea each morning, with 
other symptoms of conception. After the next attack, which 
came soon, she said : “ I remember perfectly what I have iust 
told you, and I now confess I am with child.” She had got 
into this condition in her second state, and was quite ignorant 
of it in her normal state ; but this was rudely broken through 
by a neighbour, who thought she was shamming innocence, and 
told her what she had confessed in the other state. The shock 
to her feelings brought on violent hysterical convulsions, which 
required medical attention for two or three hours. Her first 
child was born when she was seventeen and a half, and for the 
two following years she enjoyed good health. When about nine- 
teen and a half the attacks recurred with moderate intensity, 
and a year later she had a difficult confinement, blood spitting, 
and a lethargy which lasted three or four hours. From this 
time till she was twenty-four the attacks became more frequent, 
and their duration, which at first equalled the normal periods, 
began to exceed them. The pulmonary haemorrhages increased, 
and she suffered partial paralyses, lethargies, extasies, &c. For 
three years, from twenty-four to twenty-seven, she was entirely 
in the normal state, and then for another six years, up to 1875, 
the disorder reappeared. Up to this date she had gone through 
eleven confinements, the result being two children still living. 
The eldest, bora during one of the attacks, is nervous like his 
mother, and suffers from fits of terror. He is intelligent and a 
good musician, now sixteen years old. M. Azam gives numerous 
instances of the two states, and adds diagrammatic representa- 
tions of them, one of which traces their changes of duration. 
From fourteen and a half to seventeen and a half years of age 
the periods of acces , or attack, were far between and much 
shorter than the normal states. From seventeen and a half to 
twenty and a half the normal state lasted ; from twenty and 
a half to twenty-four three attacks ; from twenty-four to 
twenty-seven a long normal state ; from twenty-seven to 
thirty-two increasing acces states, and at the present date 
these states tend to become constant. M. Azam observes 
that “ the growing diminution in number and length of the 
normal states leads to the opinion that they may at last cease 
altogether, and then her whole life would be passed in the 
second state.” She would then have a complete personality ; 
intelligence and memory would be there, but it would not be 
the old personality ; she would be another person : — 
u Her existence, from an external view, would include three successive 
personalities ; the first normal, with which she came into the world ; the 
second, divided in two hy loss of memory ( amnesie ) ; the third new, and 
wholly different. Good would thus come from excess of evil, for it would 
