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Jackson reports the history of the case of a young dry-goods
clerk who was seized with convulsions of a violent nature during
which he became unconscious. In the course of twenty-four hours
his convulsions abated, and about the third day he imagined
himself in New York paying court to a lady, and having a rival
for her favors; an imaginary quarrel and duel ensued. For a
half-hour on each of three days he would start exactly where he
had left off on the previous day. His eyes were open and to all
appearances he was awake during this peculiar delirium. When
asked what he had been doing he would assert that he had been
asleep. His language assumed a refinement above his ordinary
discourse. In proportion as his nervous system became composed,
and his strength improved, this unnatural manifestation of
consciousness disappeared, and he ultimately regained his health.
A further example of this psychologic phenomenon was furnished
quite meetly at a meeting of the Clinical Society of London,
where a well known physician exhibited a girl of twelve,
belonging to a family of good standing, who displayed in the most
complete and indubitable form this condition of dual existence. A
description of the case is as follows:--
"Last year, after a severe illness which was diagnosed to be
meningitis, she became subject to temporary attacks of
unconsciousness, on awakening from which she appeared in an
entirely different character.
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