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Show Curiosities of tho Senses. That impressions made on one of tho senses may produce similar Impressions on another sense is a fact whoso observation ob-servation has come within the experience experi-ence of many. An extraordinary Instance is described de-scribed In the Revue Phllosophique. The subject was a youth of 2G, born of a neuropathic family. He developed epilepsy in his thirteenth year, and the attacks seriously Impaired his mental faculties, although his color wnsc, which had been remarkable since birth, remained uncommonly acute. The human hu-man voice had always. It appears, represented rep-resented colors to him colors of a prism-like delicacy. Even the cries of animals were colored. In the case of the human voice the most intense color impressions resulted from the sound of the spoken vowels. A, for example, gave the impression of light green, and other" senses were affected as well. The Impressions Im-pressions succeeded and were merged into each other. Other vowel sounds produced these peculiar associates, e was jellow, u dark green, y white, 1 black. The printed vowels produced the same impressions, varying in vividness. Harper's Weekly. |