He found himself in a village 100 miles from Paris, remembering
nothing about his journey thereto; but on inquiry he found that
he had paid a visit to the priest of the village who thought his
conduct odd, and he had previously stayed with an uncle, a
bishop, in whose house he had broken furniture, torn up letters,
and had even had sentence passed upon him by a police court for
misdemeanor. During these three weeks he had spent the equivalent
of $100, but he could not recall a single item of expenditure.
Davies cites a remarkable case of sudden loss of memory in a man
who, while on his way to Australia, was found by the police in an
exhausted condition and who was confined in the Kent County
Insane Asylum. He suffered absolute loss of all memory with the
exception of the names of two men not close acquaintances, both
of whom failed to recognize him in his changed condition in
confinement. Four months later his memory returned and his
identity was established.
In the Revue Philosophique for 1885 there are the details of a
case of a young man who seemed able to assume six states of what
might be fairly called different personalities. The memories
attached to each of these states were very different, though only
one was completely exclusive of the others.
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