Show IN A TRANCE I I Delirious Woman Becalm Language Practically Forgotten An Interesting cane of abnormal memory memo-ry In delirium In recounted by Dr Hour if Freeborn Time patient was n woman l 70 years who was suffering from broncho nfl eu mon Ia On the night of the 13th and 1Wh of Juno she was found to bo speaking In a language unknown to those about her l noundud as If eho was repeating Rome poetry sometimes or carrying on a conversation con-versation at others She repeated the name poem time after time This Inn Kunie POOn was found to bo Hindustani On tho llth In the evening the < Illndunianl oenlnr tIe began to bo mixed with English and she spoke to and of < frlcndn and relations of her girlhood On tho irth the IIIndiiBlanl had disappeared altogether and she was tuBcn dlmppcnrld of friends of iu later date In English French and Gorman The 1 patient pa-tient was born In India which country tcnt sho loft at the nK1 of 3 years and landed In England after five months vpyapo bfforo alma vas 4 yearj old Up to the time she landed tho had been under tho euro of Indian servants and jpokc no CllO nne English nt all her only lanpuaft being Hindustani On hor coming to Eland the ayah was sent back and slip then began to learn English and from that time she had never spoken HlnduotUMjl She apparently on tho 33th went back n her delirium to hor very earliest day when sho spoke again In the Oral lan ruagu sue ever heard Tho poom was found to bo something which tho ayahs are in tho habit of repeating to their children chil-dren and tho conversations were apparently appar-ently with the native servants one beIng recognlzcd nt a request that sho might be taken to tho bazar to buy sweets I Through tho wholo delirium there could bo recognized n sequence As time went on tho friends she spoke of wcro of Inter date and one took events In their proper order She aparontly began at the beginning of her life and went through It until on March JGth slit had reached tho time when ale vao married and had her children growing up boy and girl I Is curious that after a lupso of sixtysix years during which time oho had not spoken Hindustani this language of the early childhood should ho recalled In delirium The patient now speaks Baa iiali French and German ono as fluently unt as tit othcrl but although sue knows a fow Hindustani words she 13 quite unablo to apeak the language or to put one sentence sen-tence together She says that she hat no recollection nor had she any before her Illness of ever having been able to speak Hindustani limo evidence that this language really wan Hindustani Is that sue docs not know nor has nho ever known any other languages except those mentioned in thIs paper A lady who has lived much of her lire in India nnd who speaks the language recognized the poem as one commonly In use among the ayahs and also translated some of tho convcrsa ant lon which the patlont curried on with her imaginary vlsltorn 1 HInncct |