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Show Curious M on till Phenomena. Under the above heading the current number of The Revue Rose publishes an interesting summary of an account recently re-cently communicated to the Societe de Biologie by M. Fere, and in which are embodied some of his experiences of the effect of ether on persons at the point of death. It is a well known fact that the dying aro often able to see the principal facts of their lives, which otherwise have been forgotten for many years, clearly and accurately before them. The reason for this clairvoyance Mr. Fere ascribes to a sudden modification of the cerebral circulation, which can also be brought about by artificial means. Thus he tells of a case of a patient who was dying of consumption. He had already lost consciousness, con-sciousness, when, halving been revived by two successive ;injections of one gramme of ether, the dying man slowly raised his head and Rapidly pronounced a string of words, which no one near him was able to understand, as they were Flemish. After some movements indicating impatience im-patience ho made a sign that he wished to write. A paper and pencil were then handed to him, and ho wrote rapidly three or four lines, also in Flemish. TLub man, who was a native of Antwerp, had lived in Paris for many years and never wrote or spoke anything but FVench; but when dying he seemed to bo unable to recollect that language. Afterwards it was found that his pencil notowasabout a debt of fifteen francs, which ho had borrowed from somebody at Brussels in 1868 and which had never been paid. In another case the patient was dying of lung disease. He had fainted several times and no longer replied to any questions ques-tions put to him; his pulse was all gone, but after an injection of ether he turned his head towards his wife, saying rapidly: rapid-ly: "You will not find that pin, for all the floor has been remade," which was an albosion to on incident of eighteen years ago.. After uttering these words breathing ceased. Pall Mall Gazette. |