Alfred Binet describes a case somewhat similar to that of Mary
Reynolds: "Felida, a seamstress, from 1858 up to the present time
(she is still living) has been under the care of a physician
named Azam in Bordeaux. Her normal, or at least her usual,
disposition when he first met her was one of melancholy and
disinclination to talk, conjoined with eagerness for work.
Nevertheless her actions and her answers to all questions were
found to be perfectly rational. Almost every day she passed into
a second state. Suddenly and without the slightest premonition
save a violent pain in the temples she would fall into a profound
slumber-like languor, from which she would awake in a few moments
a totally different being. She was now as gay and cheery as she
had formerly been morose. Her imagination was over-excited.
Instead of being indifferent to everything, she had become alive
to excess. In this state she remembered everything that had
happened in the other similar states that had preceded it, and
also during her normal life. But when at the end of an hour or
two the languor reappeared, and she returned to her normal
melancholy state, she could not recall anything that had happened
in her second, or joyous, stage.
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