, 1874-06-18

But tho anbjcct Of the obltcratioo of Tim
records OF memory Under oortain condition. ia
ill., tn s 10 snn' ~ ol Of tier revival
caHoa simultaneous while ono eot Of ir,ptesso,,s
ta recalled another Ia ooincdentlY erasc or ioat
Woll-known living physician not long ago ,. re-.
ooraod tho Gase iE OF lady who. up to hor 10th
Fronoh. After this she car,o to England )oarI;.
gu tho language, married. Ill American at 2O and
for tho next twonty yonrs lived pnrlly iu Amer
ica and psrtlJ IN England, speaking EngllHl,
nanlsqaly m French scarcely ovor. sho thou bc-
1narried life, and If asked who sho was, gave her
inaidon nn1ne. and mentioned, in Fre,lch tho
atreet In Paris tn Which Htle had iiyod aB rirI.
20 completely had sho forgotten hor English,
tnas II was necessary to change an English
FOR = Trench maid. In sono Of tho cases
ct partial loHs Of memory from injury or
dtsoaBo Of tho brain, It would bo yotY puzznr
TO account aatiafaotorily for tho nature and Tho
yery limited oxtont OF tho loss. Thus foyor
obllteratod from tho memory Of a loarnetl man
inc letter " b" without apparently committing
any other injury. soldier who had undergone
tho operation Of tropan, and lost alice OF brain
matter, lost with " tho power to recall tho num-
bors " and y" aud was only able to fix
like child. Sir atamin Drodie munitions The
easo Of groom in the aorvice Of George w.,
who WAS Kicked by vicious horso whi!o 10 was
IL tue net Of cleaning it. The groom did not
fail, nor rms ho at al! stunned or insonsiblo |;
but he entirely forgot What be had been doing
At tho time tho blow was inflicted. There was
IN interval of timo blottod out, ns it woro. from
his recollection. 11o inferred, In fact, that dur
Ing TINT time he had been asleep. 4 yonng lady
VINO bad boon Present at catastrophe in
killed by tho fall Of tho gallery Of a
church, escaped without injury, but with
the complete losB of the recollection of
any Of the circumstances; and this extended not
only to the accident, but to everything that lad
occurred to her cortain time beforo going to
tho church. A gentleman mentioned by DR.. Do-
attic lost hiH knowledge OF Crock from q blow
on the head, whilst tho other mental stores woro
left Intact. Sometimes, however, diseaso ,ap-
pears to make clean swoop OF oil acquired
dlnary case, was published in an American
medical work many yoars ago. Tho patient was
= clergyman, who ut tho termination OF a severe
tl!noss, lost tue recollection of Everything. eyon
Tue names Of the most common objocta. When
h's health was restored. 10 began to acquire
knowledge just aa CHILD docs, After learning
the names Of objects, ho waa taught to road, and
1ftor this began to learn tho Latin language.
lie had mado considerable progroas, whou, oilo
day, in roading his Lesson with his brother, WHO
VAS his teacher, no suddenly stopped and nut nut
his hands to hs head. Deing asked why ho did
60, lie replied: ~ feel peculiar bcpsatIon in
my head and now it nppcars to MO TINT l knew
al THIS before" From that time hc rapidly ro-
GofC4CtA 1AGlltlo0s IL IL lGEHEuGu Nv DAlIN{l.
tyne OF Sir Walter Bcott that when the 'Brile
Of Lammermoor" IN its printed form yyss Bub.
United to linn, aftor MI ilnoua, he did not reoog-
nize as 'hta otun ono single incident, character,
or oonrersation 1t contained; got the original
tradition waH porfoct in lis mind. Whom Mrs.
Arkwrlght sang aomo verseH OF Sir Walters
QUO evening at Lord Francis Egerton's, tho au-
thor OF thonn whispered to Lorklart: '"Capital
Wortls. Whose are theyf Dyron's, I SUPPOSE,
but don't remember them" For vo'uminous
author to forgot some Of his own writings doon
not appear 40 remarkable; but one can hardly
conceive Of person failing to rocollect his own
namo; but cnBea record OF this ne Mus ultra
Of forgotfulnesB. A man Of not very strong In
tollect, who held an office tho sole duty Of whtcl,
consisted in signing his own namo.to number
Of papors. had one day 40 much business Of this
Kind to DO that ut last lo WAS incapable OF roc
olocting tho word ho ought to Sign. 4 writor o,
tho last century relatos that Mr.. Won b, En- .
voy at st. Petersburg, went one morning to pa =
number Of .viBits. Among other houses al
which he oalod thero was ono where the servant
did not know him, and consequently ho was I'M
der tho necossity OF giving in his na1no but
this lie found he had entirely forgotten. Turn
Ing round to gentleman who accompanied him,
he said with much earnestness 7'For God'a
sake, tell me who am |" This odd request e1-
cited laughter but ho insisted on being answered,
adding, that lie bud entirely forgotten lis name.
Chambers Journal,