She strolled
through the woods and the mountains, attracted by the dangers of
the wild country in which she lived. Then she had a fresh attack
of sleep, and returned to her first condition; she recalled all
the memories and again assumed a melancholy character, which
seemed to be aggravated. No conscious memory of the second state
existed. A new attack brought back the second state, with the
phenomenon of consciousness which accompanied it the first time.
The patient passed successively a great many times from one of
these states to the other. These repeated changes stretched over
a period of sixteen years. At the end of that time the variations
ceased. The patient was then thirty-six years of age; she lived
in a mixed state, but more closely resembling the second than the
first; her character was neither sad nor boisterous, but more
reasonable. She died at the age of sixty-five years.
The second case was that of an itinerant Methodist minister named
Bourne, living in Rhode Island, who one day left his home and
found himself, or rather his second self, in Norristown,
Pennsylvania. Having a little money, he bought a small stock in
trade, and instead of being a minister of the gospel under the
Methodist persuasion, he kept a candy shop under the name of A.
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