His memory is perfect as to everything back to March 3d. The
theory of hypnotism was advanced in explanation of this case.
The morbid sympathy of twin brothers, illustrated in Dumas's
"Corsican Brothers," has been discussed by Sedgwick, Elliotson,
Trousseau, Laycock, Cagentre, and others. Marshall Hall relates
what would seem to verify the Corsican myth, the history of twin
brothers nine months of age, who always became simultaneously
affected with restlessness, whooping and crowing in breathing
three weeks previous to simultaneous convulsions, etc. Rush
describes a case of twin brothers dwelling in entirely different
places, who had the same impulse at the same time, and who
eventually committed suicide synchronously. Baunir describes a
similar development of suicidal tendency in twin brothers. A
peculiar case of this kind was that of the twin brothers Laustand
who were nurses in a hospital at Bordeaux; they invariably became
ill at the same time, and suffered cataract of the lens together.
Automatism has been noticed as a sequel to cranial injuries, and
Huxley quotes a remarkable case reported by Mesnet. The patient
was a young man whose parietal bone was partially destroyed by a
ball.
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