Show The Strange Case base of 1 the Doris I II I J irl With Five Personalities I j H-f H M l I I I I i I M 1 I 1 I I HI i-i-f- i H. H 1 i I t 4 t Science Has N No Rec Record rd M More e B Bewildering Than That of I Doris Fischer a Young Woman in Whom Psychical Students Found Five Distinct Lives Previous to Her HerI I Recent Cure by a a Clergyman I II I y f H 1 V x it R At the left Sick Doris Boris oril at a moment when the Margaret v consciousness is approaching aching next Margaret singing to her dolls Sick Doris Dons the neutral infant at the ri right ht Sleeping Margaret the philosopher j- j I AISS ISS DORIS FISCHER is a young lady now in the early twenties Olives lives In the Borough of Queens ty tool of New York To give the street ad 5 number would be to impose furer furer fur fur- er discomfort upon her ber for she has hasSard hard Sard time as it is to keep from be- be out by everybody as the thea a 1 with the most complex history by modern pathological leaco tho ence-tho tho girl with the d personality an in other words five parate and dissimilar natures in is one dy But every word of her phy is vouched for by some of the sT at known physicians and scientists scientist d psychical students m in the world ss S Fischer has permitted unlimited Three bulky scientific lames lumes have already been written i out her i relating elating even her hei most i vial irisi conversations coa year after year ice cc she first learno din talk She s made this sacrifice for science science- pd d for the sake of some other suf- suf cr er who may be looked upon as she sheLB But as LB as an unsolvable enigma the publicity she shrinks from No she could become rich by ex- ex ng herself In vaudeville But she sho Setter better than rich she as is happy For Tor Tora ForC C e a young woman entirely cured per just one young joung woman Until a or time ago she was five young I omen This is a fact I I By CHARLES IV 11 1001 I When Doris Fischer was three years d she had bad a violent fall Something ko Inside her head head head-a a lesion In association tract the neurologists lied it At any rate when she came herself she sho came to three selves ly one of which was the tho real Doris p at intervals did sto seem fee e herself Most of the time timer r e talked and acted like an al al' b k different child who emed to know and remember oil all that Doris said Si d did Occasionally she sho to be nor this other but still another ell elt different from I ther And when she was this bird sell eel she seemed scorned to know nil ail bout ut the tho other two selves but laher of or them seemed to know about her Her mother was distracted ey were poor very poor liv In inn a working class district of The girl was very I od and sweet sand sweet and then very verv and mischievous The ge would come like a flash th tha a a. twitch of the neck Her feole e expression would change she would with night with It sometimes she she- would e without end Once one self fetched the face of the other othern i 1 in n an argument about other little girl in the same little girls girl's body was wa's too confused contused to understand She went on playing with the ball Ill teach you cried the owner of the ball And the face which was occupied in turn by the two suffered the consequences Doris Dods succumbed took the ball baU out of one hand and meekly surrendered it to the other It is hard for children to grasp th the principles of private property But nut when two of them have haTe only one body and brain and voice and voica and face to Jo be Jobe be scratched and hair to be pulled an understanding of property rights is 13 infinitely more complex No 1 one in the Fischer environment could attempt an explanation Doris could not e explain plain She was sometimes one person and sometimes another that was all aU she could comprehend When she was Doris she was bright and cheerful and in school she stood next to the head of the class But when when she was the other she he was a little rogue People said she was peculiar pe tipe peculiar pe- pe culiar euliar or queer and let it go at that Somehow the child weathered this mental storm until she was seventeen and nd all tho ho time the different personalities personalities personalities person person- that seemed to take possession o of at her developed Just as different children chIldren children chil chIl- dren would The amiable one became exceptionally well veil endowed and practical practical I and the mischievous one ono became I exceptionally witty and fascinating She lost her impish spirit and was known as a Jolly humorist At seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen a a. great tragedy came into this multiple life Mrs Fischer the girls girl's Idolized mother died The rhe distraught daughter daugh daugh- ter cared for her to the last Tho The girl maintained her reason up to the tho utmost utmost utmost ut ut- most when she sho drew diew the sheet over T r 1 p e s the remains of all that she bad had ever loved and then her mind became a a. blank Presently a new and utterly strange personality equipped with intelligence but entirely without memory or knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge awoke within her She did not know how to Ito swallow her hei food and had to be taught She had a mild wid curiosity about things wanted to know why things that looked the same sama were not the same and why the body under the sheet was eo- eo Estill-arid Estill rid Why it couldn't it walk when it bad had legs How this new personality was educated by one of the former tenants of ol the Doris brain who came subliminally to instruct her is told at length in m the s scientific record But that was not the limit of confusion con con- fusion At eighteen the j oung young woman suffered another fall and still another personality was liberated Doris was wa now five young women and only a at t the rarest intervals was she the Real Heal Doris Doriss Doris's live Five Ea Each h of these personalities claimed a name of ot her own and would not answer to any other They were 1 REAL uREAL DORIS DOmS the primary personality personality personality per- per optimistic bright and capable capa capa- ble 2 2 MARGARET who came with the fall in Doriss Doris's s childhood at first roguish roguish I ish later fascinating and humorous I but remaining apparently not more mOle I than ten years old although the mentality mentality men men- men men-I tamy of at Doris matured normally 3 3 SLEEPING MARGARET who came into being at the same time but was entirely unlike hc her hel namesake She claimed to be not a person but a guiding spirit she always appeared when none of ot the other personalities was present and at the same psychical psych psych- cal level She was a philosopher pher and advisor dictating d long technical statements and interpretations which l were clearly beyond the mental F grasp of Doris Darb or Margaret 4 SICK SIh DORIS who was born of the tho shock of ot Mrs r Fischers Fischer's death and Instructed sublimInally by Margaret 6 B. SLEEPING REAL DORIS DORIS DOR DOR- IS loS the personality which appeared appeared ap In the accident of ot a year later Only partly Tartly developed and possibly not seIt she sho seemed to reproduce conversations conversations con and expressions from the minds of the tha others R Real l Doris Dom was acquainted with only two of ot her other Margaret and Sick Doris Doris Doris' and then only throUgh their conversations She could not read their minds Sick Doris was conscious of herselt herself and the Real Reat Doris but know Margaret only IY asan as asan asan an outside personality Margaret seemed 4 jp to see Real neal Doris DoYls through s 's t Oct Dot 9 all all- Is 18 and was caustic both I Is I's II mInI mine It was as given to me Sick Doris ono one of the five selves elves of Doris Dori but knew nothing 0 Sleep Fischer the girl who whose case CalO is without d the one cn little girl But Dut the science ins Margaret equal In pathological t Ill IllI I H |