Show FREAK A Woman 4 in Delirium Je Things Long Forgot From the London L Lancet An interesting and minute account of the th action act of memory in delirium deli m is 18 i given by a doctor The patient was a woman 70 years ears of age abet suffering s bronchopneumonia The Th chief point of Interest in this I case lies lit In the delirium d IIrI JU From the night of March 7 until the evening of ot I Ithe the when the temperature fell suddenly she sh w sometimes wander ing leg while awake and continually talk ing leg In her sleep but bat when to would be perfectly sensible se Ible and so long as she was engaged with one of the attendants or doctor would answer questions etc tc When the temperature fell on the she became quite de do linious and remained so until the th when she gradually returned to rea rca son On the night pf qt the and on i the Uth sh she wa was i found tn to lw be I a language age unknown to those about her Jt It j sounded as If It she was repeat rep t leg inS some sonic poetry sometimes or carrying on a conversation at others She re repeated repeated repealed pealed the th same poem time after alter time J This language was found to be Hindu stanl st st nt nL On the in the evening the Hindustani began to be mixed wIth English and she spoke to and of or friends and relations of oC her girlhood On the the Hindustani had altogether and she was talking to and of friends lends fr of at a later date in n English En French rench and German Getman I ta born corn in if India which country she left lt at the age of ot 3 years and landed in fn England after a five months voyage vo ge before belore she was 4 years old Up to the time she s e landed she had been b n under the care of Indian servants and spoke no English at nil aU her only language langu g being Hindustani On her coming to England the ayah wa sent back and she then began b gan to learn English and from front that time had never spoken Hindustani She apparently apparently on the tite went back in her delirium to her very earliest rUest e days when she spoke again the first fi t lan Jan language Jang guage g age she lie ever heard h aIlI The poem was was found to be something which the ayahs hs are In Jn the habit of repeating to their children chIl and the conversations I were apparently with the native servants servants servants ants one on being recognized as a request r that she he might n be taken to the bazar bazart I tor to t buy sweets ts A lady who has lived much of oC her life in India and who speaks the language I guage translated some of the conversations conYers which the patient carried on with her er imaginary visitors Through the whole delirium there could be recognized a sequence As time went on the friends she spoke of were of later Jat r date and she took events Fn In their proper J order She apparently began b gan at the beginning Q of or her h r life and went through it until on March 16 she had re reacheS reached cb a the t time when she was married and nd had her children growIng up boy and girl It is curious that after ar r a lapse of c years during which time in she had bad not n t spoken Hin Bin Hindustani HIndustanI this language of her early childhood should be recalled in de U The patient now ow speaks s aks Eng TIg lish Ush French and antI German one as flu fiu fluently as as the tb other but although she knows ii a few tew Hindustani nl words she is quil q unable to te speak the language I or put one sentence nce together She says that site she s e has tas as no recollection nor had sire she any before her illness of ever eer hay hav ha haing ing lag been able to speak Hindustani |