The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-05

word for word book he had read the day
before or a sermon which he had heard.
Another French subject could give when
asleep the names, compositions and quanti-
ties Of the uuueTC US medicines which had
been prescribed for her by different ply
sicians during her illness, yet when awake
she knew nothing q bout them.
DR.. Wienholt had patient with a very
bad memory in waking, but who during
somnam bulism could recite long passages
from book she had been reading.
DR.. SCHNEIDER had patient VINO, in the
magnetic sleep, could give the whole history
OF her disease, many incidents Of which the
physicians had himself forgotten.
The French DR.. Puysegur testfes to q
patient he had who, when four wears old,
had suffered Injury to the head with q con-
sequent surgical operation, which so de-
strOyed the memory that he could not recOl-
lect thing which happened an hour De
fore. Yet in sOmuambulism this patient
recollected every thing exactly, could de-
scribe the operation which ne had under
gone aud predicted that he should never
recover his waking memory, as indeed,
proved TO be the case.
Latontaine, once famous mesmerizer,
has recorded an experiments which he says
he once made himself at Rennes. A young
actress there had aslei MIN 10 put her to
sleep, but requested to be awakened in tine
for rehearsal, as she had ouly read once a
part which she was to perform that night.
Instead OF waking her, however, Laf n
tame induced her to go on the stage in her
somnambulic condition, AID TO 60 through
her part without mistake. Yet when
wakened immediately afterward she could
neither remember it, nor that she had Just
repeated il.
The somnanbulic consciousness is linked
with earlier magnetic conditions; that is to
say. somnanbulistS can recall what occurred
IN previous sleeps, but not in waking inter
walls. This is one of the most curious
phases of the subject, as it shows that we
may have double memory, one side of
which Is latent while the other is active,
turn and turn about.
Then, as to other sensations, we quote
from the testiinoney Of patient of DR..
Kerner"
This morning in the magnetic sleep l
drank elder tea. On waking felt no taste
or II. Waking | ate meat. and then fell
into magnetic sleep | then had again
the taste OF elder tea, and not of the meat
But on coming out of this sleep | had
again the taste of the meat"
Another curious case was that of the
nephew of Rezzi, the physician. In the
somnambulic state he complained of want
OF appetite and of nausea, but, on waking
wanted Immediately to eat; the indispoSi-
ton always returning with the sleep.
Prof Debret mentions that he awakened
one somnambulist while she was singing
She ceased her song and looked about in
great perplexity, but when put to sleep
again resumed in the same key and at the
same syllable where she had been inter-
rupted.
The Psychologist Burdach was told one
morning. that his wife had been seen the
night before walking on tha roof of tba
church. He took the opportunity at her
next sleep to question her, when She gave a
full account of her proceedings, and men
toned having hurt her left foot by a nail
on the roof. When awakened she was
asked about the wound in her foot, but
could give no explanation. This appears
to have been an ordinary case of Sleep
walking, not of magnetic sleep; yet we find
the same evidence of dual consciousness,