The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-26

stances OF dual personality follow on
epilepsy, but one Is recorded by Dr..
Drewry, of Virginia, In 1896, of Mr. X.
Mr.. X, while apparently In perfect
health, went to Northern town TO
transact some business. which he did
quite ably and nationally. He then
disappeared. He WAS given up for
dead Then, six months afterward,
he was found. brought home again, a
changed man in mind and body. The
six months interval was blank to
him and always remained so. He had
spent them as an odd-Jobb man In 4
southern state. His recovery dated
from the breaking down of growth
in his auditory canal which had un-
doubtedly affected his brain In a ply
steal sense.
But the more curios cases OF double
personality, which did not begin and
leave off suddenly. but which endur-
ed for number OF years. there are a
number of instances, One was OF
Miss Mary Reynolds. who for fifteen
or sixteen years had two states OF ex.
existence. In one OF which she was a
melancholy, morbid young woman and
in the other a gay hystrlcal. mischies-
GUS child
The alternations, in which the child
state lasted from five TO six weeks.
continued at intervals of varying
length for fifteen or sixteen years,
but finally ceased when she attained
the age OF thirty.five or thirty-six,
leaving her permanently in her sec
ondary or acquired state. The emo
tional opposition OF. the two states
had. however, become gradually re-
duced. and the third state at which
she eventually arrived was rational
state. removed from both of them.
MuItipIex PePrsonsllty.
There are cases OF muliplex person.
ality. of which the best known is that
of the oplleptic Lulso viye, whose DIFF
ferent states we're distinguished by
different forms OF paralysis. as well
as by entirely different moral prDclIyI
ties. and there is the curious case Of
Miss Beauchamp, patient Of DR.
Morton Prince, full account OF which
was given to the international con
gress Of psyg ghelogy, Paris, In 1900,
Miss Beaucnamp was q pcurasthen
Is but clever young woman, who over
worked at college. She was OF a NOR
bidly conscientious and rather .reserv
ed disposition. She was hynotized II
order to try the power Of suggestion
and out of one OF these hynotic trance
emerged a new Miss Beaucbamp--'
person entirely different from tn
original Miss Beauchamp In manners
ideals, education and temperament
J This new Miss Beauchamp was calle
Sally" Beauchamp. and one of tn
peculiarlties OF her mischleyous ten
per was profound dislike of the "otf
er Miss Beauchampsp The case is to
complex and too curious for complet
summary here. but II presents tn
amazing fact that In one brain ma
reside the possibility OF the existenc
OF two entirely different beings. di
ferent In mind, thought. disposition
health aud temper. (
4 Last week a magistrate was cslle
on to deal with the case Of youn
man who was normally sober. inda
trious and honest. hut who in IN Il
teryal Of relapse from his normal Sc
and conscioushess committed a thei
The young man had been an epileptI
rand It was suggested in his defens
that he had heen and still was subje
to state Of mind in which his usua
normal, honest self had no exlstent
I for him. He forgot it. He was,
fact. another person. He had anoth'
brain, another mind. The magistra
was broad-minded enough TO acce
this explanation, which to psychol
gists and to specialists In diseases
the brain Us q perfectly just and re
sonable one. zs
Common Cases. !
cf tout'e PERSONALITY, Que lAas
familiar and quite creditable to peop
who have never studied the peculi
aspect OF brain abnormality--kn0y
las duplex or multiple personality
that Of 4 person who loses his memo
through shock or auddei. injury
the brain. Ordinary coueussion 0f {