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Show T . ' ' ' ' ; of tbuch was highly, sesialtiv during that period; she could detect -a line drawn across her drawing paper, dates written at the top of her drawing pa- per, merely by touching the paper ' where the Intruding lines had been drawn. Plates of the drawings are given. During her normal atate the J patient could never draw, either before ' or after the illness. Mental Science. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. The patient was a girl, 22 years of age. She suffered from some affection that' may have been meningitis, but this Is not known positively. She then developed acute maniacal excitation. During this Illness the patient presented present-ed some remarkable changes of personality per-sonality such as are seen in hysteria. The author does not term the curious manifestations by this name, but describes de-scribes some nlne or mor different varieties of personality manifested by the patient thst are 'quits Interesting. Thus the patient had spells of blindness, blind-ness, deafness, paralysis, etc. The most interesting of these manifestations, manifesta-tions, because the least easy to explain, was the patient's ability to draw the full figure of a nurse, etc., during her spell of blindness. To, convince himself him-self that this was the actual case, the author held a book between the patient's pa-tient's eyes and the sheet of paper on which sh was drawing, or put his hands before her eyes while she was drawing, without In any way Interfering Inter-fering with her drawing. Her sense |