The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
Best Personality Seized
and Developed: T a.
tient Now Well.
REMARKABLE z CASE
BATTLES DOCTORS.
Young Woman Passed Through
Many States, Speaking Lam
guage She Never Learned,
Becoming Blind, Deaf
and Dumb, and Then
Whole Again.

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LONDON, April San asto tonishing case U
OF a Girl possessing ten separa ate and dis
tinct personalities within twenty months
is being much discussed in medical oir-4.. q r..
cles. S8g VI 5
The girl was the pat OF 8Dr Albert
Wilson, and SO remarkab BILE was 4 ne case
that Dr. w ilson laid 1t before the commit
tee Of the Medico4 4Psy cholog oglcal AssociA-a
tior9 Many Of the members Of he body
were at first skeptical. greel lng thn tf e: g
manifestations were ind doubtcd dlys genuine
but they were unable to offer any sexplhnaai- All
ton Of the occurrence M a8
81 Dr. Wilson also rep0rte ed tho case to- ne H
Psycholog lcal Research Society & who ave \
now published \ its details in ! their pro-sl
ceedngs. ss ss,
Ina April, 1895, the q girl. who was then
under thirteen years @of age, ana 8indif- 6LE
ferently educated, had an att tack OF ~
fIuenza. # a tier remaining in bed for N ten en-
days! sre went out into the cold \ air and
suffered a relapse. w thin he next two
days she was on the point OF dea tn. but
grad dual " recovered her strength. There 11lt re-
then began to appear In su Ion the
ten personalites. the asst one of " vhiohss
occurred a year and eight mont tbs AIT
theS first and took the form Of blind
and dimbccility.f Now at tho ago OF twenty
two SHE Is In good healt the best sof her
personalities that showed itself fBss having y
been educated and deve1o oped. :865 s3s NJ
The Perso alities: ssss
The Is Spersonalit ties mani ifsste 81 aE the M;
1896, acute nlanla, hi tens 4
moss snnd Illusions as to the presence Of
snakes and craving for ornn ges and ms
onad 81; second, personali ty, about q mont
later, a simple child wi reversed ideasS
as to writing and spea King. lss 8 he srepus
diated her anne; bl would resi- ond ON
Ibeing}refcrrcd to as
proved. 4. Sho now becari q very passio rate.S
attempting to eat her clio hes She could
read ana write, thougl Ii unable to ID 9 so|
wien PERSONAL tx No s. n
Fourth perso sonnl ty. = n Aug ,st, lS95. slleSt
5became a deaf mute, and. atIed to hear!
loud noises close to her ears, 4 but could 4
speak In deal and dunn b Ian gl,age
81 III her fifth PERSONAL ty, ecenlb Der s
she again reversed til ings, cal led black
white ana thin people fat She spellei
backwards, but wrote forwards. ~ She fha-a
lieved she was three days old ,s but under
stood everything hat was going onlaround& 4
Her She was pa rally yzed ins the legs at this i
stage, but her condlt ltion changed. a ran i
instant she leaped from her bee, ran up-gS
stairs, where She threw herself TO ~ the
floor and reyolyed on her back and shoul-8
iders. She also rested on her head and 4
attempted to walk up walls "A few days i
later she was normal q gain. ~ iii55 ss3a
The ersonality Developed.
8 The sixth personality was II, May. 1896. q
when she appeared as a sweet child, but
totally ignorant of3spelling. reading and
writing. This lis the personality that ISL
now being developed satisfactorily.
X In tho seventh personality that OF June,
1896, she remembered clearly her early
childhood. but not her i lness. and sub
5scquen period. I. This sta sc lasted Ia single
night. ls .5 5.is q fFs
H The eighth personality. IN June 1886,
came with a fit of5$cOnoubions and a.
complete loss of memory. Tho patient
believed she had been horn the day be- ~
fore She called her fntlor{1 Tom and her
mother Mary. Itlasted three days. {
H In the ninth personality. October 1885,
the nsition came gradually, Fits ofs$
temper wero noticed. she talked like ,lsS
young infantfand could not walk. but she
could speak a little French. of3which
language she Wns quite ignorant nt tthS
normal periods.
The tenth personality. December, 1896, AZ
was q blind and imbecile stage "a , r a n