Show TOTAL LOSS OF V V Causes C uses of People losing Their V f Identity V VV V London Mail Ian Mailhat hat lIt use ash a the th causes ses ot ot of apparently healthy Pe d 5 suddenly losing t ir identity was wan a question which a cel celebrated celebrated brain specialist with re recently re recently in tn the th hope bope that he be results of ot othis his researches and his advice might V prove of benefit to the public The physician recalled some remark remarkable remarkable V able cases of what are ar known kno as psychical pSychical chical changes which have recently come to his notice including the ex experience j of it a man I a few days ago ao O who en rEM te tIle Record In tp Chancery Lafie Laft and announced edo to t an rt astonished official that the he did not know who he was as ashe he had lost his ide memory Another case case was that of or a young w woman oman w who ho wandered from rem her home at Clacton to Finsbury i distance of or V thirty miles mIle and to the po police pollee lice at the latter Jatter place a name which she thought t to be her fathers A At telegram t however sent to that ad add d s was iras V A 4 third illustration f these curIous heJl avas l lh that hat at ef efa f 1 a t who after S from bin bh bt k a um of i 4 lo to te the I purchase of piece of er tend entered a I It tramway t car From Prom that moment his iud became 1 a blank and vu he ie wandered l lo o miles to tp a larger larg where with the e boU f a stationers tS shop and erected a sign bearing th b the name of Brown V VV V After six weeks reeks a customer entered and addressing ad the man Blan behind the V counter as s Mr asked t to le be 1 supplied with some articles arti l 5 ot o stationery The proprietor replied that his name was not Brown but Bourne and an that he 1 Knew e nothing I about abo t the S V V business V z S The man had suddenly awakened from his prolonged tepee lapse of memory added the physician No o less leQ remarkable was wAs the case of ofa a London man who traveled to t Leeds I to fill fiU IlK a t situation which he M had It been tm V very anxious to obtain He bad had V a 8 V brief and aft satisfactory Interview with th his hi 3 employer and then T it to look k for forgings lodgings l gings rw next thins he b man malt re remembered remembered was beta hg te be Va a 3 tram tan at al t Grantham on his way back bark to London The strange feature of r this case was that hat t the unconscious roan inan n had careful carefully ly l y and accurately a y relabeled led his hw luggage for the address a dress he had previously oc occupied e in London Leaden As a matter of or fact act explained the physician these thew U persons Pf ns behave In quite a rational way although they are renly realy re ly all the time tIthe They spend money carefully and eat sleep with their tb ir customary regis regu l arity They are but partly mentally deficient V V The is is co an J y regarded Nga ed as asa asA i ia A a single organ ornit It 11 fe is T reality re o a eel col collection lection l of ot parts different and distinct but closely related to t O each h other and connected with every ery portion orti n V of the th body bod by nerves erves m n ThU J phraseology certain of these cerebral t subdivisions become ome impaired where cases ca es r lost identity occur In 15 cases eases where the th sight Sg l of ot a print printed V ed el work falls fails to vl memory the th dIMP P te IR I kh w Wo rd F s Fand sand V Vand and in I ti a spoken en is 18 not nol ap t i the he V word written l tl l uio a m an a ar known as word The patients are re unable un to utter a arid and yet can an write w nr Intelligent T t terp ter TIte auditory word center of the brain refute refuses refu to act V Again Agam there th are ano cases cu s where people I are re not capable fie or f router either speaking or writing the words nerds which they th y nevertheless less teSS remember r H Ke the tug large RUm mans number tier ber of lost persons who cannot furnish the authorities with wUk their ow own n names Yea common are the Ute cases cages where persons p rs forget fOrt et events that have just occurred and yet rotain excellent im Am impressions na of c things that happened years ago and nd Impart knowledge e which was Val w as required in their t childhood l and land had long been forgotten One OM man who was as professionally treated i could QuId not remember i his bis own name nadir but out could re TC reft recite cite ft vh le chapters of the Bible The cI a dev of many nanny of ue these eases cases be checked proceeded the doctor ductor if their friends sought timely advice Memory t Is regulated by Ute the amount t of or attention which a person te is able at tile the time to give to the subject sub to o be remembered r This power of is 0 greatly dimin diminished shed lobed by b disease dl An ill nourished body implies an bed bra bran brain n Malnutrition Is te a frequent fr cause came of brain failure and aDd consequent loss JOs of identity Various V o fevers Influenza bl and anti all aU kinds of mental cental shock k and blows blos upon up the head be d may Vv v havo unfortunate results Overwork especially ny when Ac ate Accompanied companied comp fer by ua 6 worries or 01 domestic anxiety ty Is a ii factor to be reckoned V But ib alt all the tb persons most li bet to InV sudden loss of ot identity ace those bose of or aj HP a epileptic ten tendency dency deney although JI tt IB difficult to recon recoil reconcile j rile cile a lapee Jap of oc memory with mth liso |