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DISEASES OF MEMORY:
AN ESSAY
THrRIBOT,
AfTHOB OF
"hereditt: a psychological study op its phenomena, laws, causes,
and conseqdences ; " " english psychology ; " etc.
NEW YORK:
D.
AND
BOND STREET.
1887.
v>
COPTEiaHT BY
D.
PREFACE.
My
chological monograph,
ory,
and,
knowledge
tain
so
far
as
is to
upon the
provide a psy-
diseases of
the present
state of
our
from them
cer-
The phenomena
deductions.
mem-
of
memory
it
might be
ject in this
It
profitable to
form.
has seemed to
me
many
make my meaning
illustrations
this
clear.
way
of the disorders of
To write
is
be, it
alone
in a general
memory, without
have
method, not in
adapted to instruction.
citing
seems to me, a
PREFACE.
6
useless task,
thor's
point.
conclusions
I
is of-
nothing more;
this
and,
if
it
has no
other
to his attention
merit,
many
ac-
in a connected form.
T.
R.
TABLE OF
I.
C0KTE:N^TS.
^Nervous action
;
Conditions of
Unconscious cerebrathe fundamental condition of peronly an accessoryLocalization
Mechanism of operation
Conscious
intensity
tion
ception
is
consciousness
memory
duration
is
this
It is
it
consists of
points Resemblance
Memory
a vision in
is
Localization, theoretical
ing proposition
conscious
memory
tends
little
by
little
to
become automatic
II.
General Amnesia
69
memory
Temporary amne-
life
Examples of re-education
totally
partially,
Its
distinct
:
this
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
what order memory fails
in inverse order
memory
Extraordinary
III.
Counter-proof
Congenital
:
Illustrations
it is
re-formed
amnesia
of idiots.
Pabtial Amnesia
Seduction of memory to memories
partial
ological
bers,
135
^Its
this
loss
Order
of regression
common nouns
guages
IV.
dissolution
proper names
interjections
and
Relation between
this
lan-
language of sentiment
dissolution
of
gestures
Counter-proof
Exaltations of Memory
174
Partial excitationReturn of
General excitation
lost im-
V.
OONOLtJSION
192
re-
Recapitulation.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
CHAPTER
I.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
The
work
phenomena of
made by various au-
recollection has
been often
particularly
thors,
FACT.
by the Scotch
this
hence,
new method
memory
to
of physiol-
comprehensive form
much more
known
studied alone,
it is
to us
it
is
velopment, having
its
in
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
10
memory
short, that
^by
is,
per
a biological fact
se,
laid bare.
I.
By common
triple
memory has a
in the past.
This,
and
however,
their localization
is
only a certain
is
called
*'
recol-
unstable
it
it
it
repre-
MEMOKY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
memory
this time, as
is
"a
studied, as
has been up to
it
it
is
by the
as the whole of
memory
but this
is
taking a
genus.
upon them
is
it
way
as
whom
for a
new
pendently of
it
new
condition
is
implanted
how memory
is
formed, inde-
all cognition.
Analogies to
its constitutior.
in tic
np
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
12
upon a sheet
of
the key
In our opinion,
to be of value as practical
Conservation, the
lustrations.
recollection, is found,
condition of
first
il-
for in these
so depen-
that there
our subject,
it
have to do with
laws
Hence, in studying
and nowhere
that those
who
else.
We
shaU
see,
farther on,
* Luys,
t 0.
67.
series, p.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
13
at once to decisive
facts.
may
and automatic-
ence
teaches
new
"Experi-
"that a
Muscular
fiber,
responding feebly at
by the motor
first
nerve,
its
it
more disposed
to
it is
It
We
approach
have
duction which
in nerve-matter.
is
complex
observed in muscular
found in a
What
is
state so
in
Everywhere we
functions."*
* Hering, " Ueber das Gedachtniss
prganisirten Materie.
Sobn, 1876,
p. 13.
Vortrag,"
als
etc., 2"
Mpl
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
14:
The most MgMy developed tissue of the organism, the nervous tissue, has, to an extreme
degree, this double power of conservation and
We
reproduction.
must
not,
memory
of reflex action.
sists of
predisposition is
is to say,
we
of
specific
ment
less
open to dispute.
we
make
of organic
here
^must be sought
memory and
the appropriate
title
many
Thus
In a general way,
it
may
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
and other
facility
FACT.
15
sum
and
of acquired
now a
quired with
When
difficulty.
uation of movements
is
observed
at the expira-
few weeks the movements are co-ordinated, the eyes have the power of accommodation of a
tion,
it
upon a luminous
with precision.
point,
When
impossible for
him
to use his
hand alone
it is
;
he
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
16
In time he
feet.*
is
able to
And
so, when
we attempt for the first time any muscular act,
we expend a great quantity of superfluous energy, which we learn gradually to subdue.
By
clusion of others.
tomical associations.
If the reader
up
their characteristics
gradual
cases,
organic
some
an inequality of the
useless
in
memory
others
according to individuals
^it
is
is
* Op.
cit.y p.
51.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
easily lost
or forgotten.
We
FACT.
17
here
is
and
each
what is to follow;
this is what happens when we walk without
concerning ourselves with the movements of our
limbs. Overcome with sleep, soldiers on foot as
well as on horseback have continued to keep
their places on the march, although those in
member
constant
equilibrium.
suggestion
cited
is still
who rendered a
determined
acts,
with
fixed
limits,
whose terms, all differing from one another, follow in constant order for example, the ascent
and descent of a staircase with which we are
familiar.
Our psychological memory is ignorant
of the number of steps but the organic memory
;
knows
this, as well as
arrangement of
the
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
18
May we
never deceived.
is
it
the organic
memory
In
method
its
of
and reproduction, we
memory
acquisition,
it
effaced.
Sometimes
^its
Con-
At the beginning
man
the organic
is
very instructive
conservation,
ally
memory?
then
and
it is
gradu-
disappearance
is
sudden.
any
act already
while walking, he
begun
fell into
on one occasion,
He was
the water.
awl,
leather.*
continuing
the
action as
if
piercing
known
musician,
who played
was frequently
momentary
loss
"He
con-
tinued to play, however, and, although remaining in absolute ignorance of his surroundings,
p. 75.
ii,
xli, 2.
Many
similar
;;
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
such cases
upon
it
itself
sphere,
if
consciousness
its
19
had taken
own
peculiar
and
tions,
seems as
FACT.
of showing,
by sudden
it
absence, the
anism of memory.
We are now prepared to advance further and
ask what modifications of the organization are
necessary for the establishment of a
memory
what changes are undergone by the nervous system when a group of movements is definitively
We
organized.
warranted by
facts,
memory
if
organic
life,
of
is
that
memory
a property of animal
and,
we
is
only a
its
ultimate condi-
tions will
whole.
It is impossible
hypothesis.
But,
by evading
all
a priori
con-
we know
we
Our hy-
of nervous action,
Finally,
it
modi-
memory.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
20
for a
The
it.
point to be established
first
of memory.
is
with
re-
The law,
as formulated by Bain, is that "the renewed
feeling occupies the very same parts, and in the
same manner, as the original feeling." To give
a striking example experiment shows that the
give no
room
We
optic nerve.
colored object
is
know
often followed
by a consecutive
same
may
outline,
although with
If
but in a complementary
less intensity,
color.
It
It leaves,
a consecutive image.
and
we may
see for
noted by Wundt,
from
whom we
both cases
We
in perception and in
now
This
is
fact,
borrow
it,
the same in
remembrance.*
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
21
npon
An
number
of elements.
it
we
merits, as
shall endeavor
to show.
To keep
mem-
part, at least
are
to
that
it
makes known
ticipating
regulate
What
in
and
it.
It implies
modi-
fications received
by a
particular
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
22
henceforth be
"The
residua of
By
definite, "f
we have spoken, we
of experiment of which
able to execute
movements with
are
facility
memory
to analysis,
we
see that
it
implies the
new
it
fiber,
As
im-
this has
This point
is
disputed.
Whether transmission
is
explained by longitudinal vibration in the axiscylinder, or the chemical decomposition of pro* Maudsley, "Physiology and Pathology of the Mind," p. 167.
t Idem, p. 157.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
toplasm,
We
remains.
to believe that
is difficult
it
FACT.
23
no trace
an
element which,
stores up,
received leaves
its
Hence, according
imprints.
to Mandsley, there is
the
is
way can
state.
and
not re-
If I
brush
had before
it
may
and an eye
of sufficient
of the passage of
it
changed places,
power would
see traces
Organic mole-
the feather.
No
doubt,
if
the action
is
several times
by
repeated.
little,
In this
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
24
its
turn,
It is impossible to
least cause
tion consists.
re-
veal
it
it
takes place.
The second
which
condition,
consists in the
has up to
elements,
little
It
is,
do
even have
attention.
however, a neces-
upon the
seat of
memory.
Some seem
to admit, at least
by
implications,
will
show,
however,
as a
that
unity.
each
composed of numerthat it is an
a group, a fusion, a complexus, a
of
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
To return
multijplicity.
above
movement may
action of
a very com-
plicated order, of
25
example cited
to the
be considered as reflex
FACT.
moment
at every
is
the initial
impression.
the
Is
starting-point
complete
its
an act of
voli-
originating, according to
pora
striata,
where
it
passes
to
the
other
side
of
columns of
the spinal cord to the lumbar region, and then
along the motor nerves to the muscles.
This
transmission
by a return
followed
is
anterior
to
the
cerebral center,
of the cord
substance,
Take
this
to
the
movement
surface
its
in
its
to
the
cerebral
the
hemisphere.
character
periphery
of
is
is
entirely auto-
ganglia,
to
return
This
course
whose
principal
points
have
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
26
number
from
differ
in
number
in the
of filaments,
and in
their posi-
axis,
Each
of these ele-
elements
movement,
the
for
and therefore
production of
for
conservation
its
and reproduction.
It is of the highest
memory supposes
not
nervous
hut
elements,
viz.
that organic
only a modification
the formation
of
among
namic
act,
the
affinities,
stable as the
establishment
of
certain
dy-
is
re-
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
27
the
plexus.
we may be permitted
may
note
first
to enlarge
upon
it.
We
necessary
memoryreally
obviates certain
The question
tions.
arises
tions
or
if,
We
ture.
once modified,
must
we
believe
may
that,
The number
to
of
it
fall
We
much
is permanently
back on conjec-
number
But
interest
this question
for,
is
being,
cell
is
is limited.
only one.
according
600,000,000 (and
Sir
each
if
there
cerebral cells
Meynert's calculations,
complica-
Naturally,
polarized.
new
diflficul-
is
not unten-
the
we
enter into
different results.
combinations,
We
may
and produce
into
its relations
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
28
and the
We
resulting combinations.
cell to
own
its
iden-
tity,
in
may com-
many
By
proper
consists of
many
ments, so modified,
new
enter into
may
memory.
The secondary automatic movements
employed in swimming or dancing require certain modifications of the muscles and articulations already used in locomotion, already regis-
tered in
in fact,
certain
nervous elements
memory
they
already organized,
find,
many
of
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
increased,
tMng
eacli
FACT.
29
some-
common
facts of
An
1.
two
observation.
another
of
It is
a question
and building up
association
breaking relations
already
estab-
lished
2.
It
ferent directions,
cumstance
place
of
and that an
infinitely
smaU
cir-
suffices to set
another,
results.
On
cident
this theory
intending to
name the
accompanied me, I
was
nounced.
'
then im-
Dr. Bridges
'
this
rejected,
who
Ojp. cit., p.
128.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
30
to that
all
three."
we
which
know how,
a certain
"Who
in trying to recollect a
its
beginning with
letter,
does not
name, we are
this letter
group emerges?"*
An
ployed in writing.
It is
when
it is
repaired,
and so soon
writing rapidly or
so brief, so quickly
forgotten,
that
the ex-
Wishing to
write ^'doit de bonnes,''^ I wrote ^^donne.''^ Wishing to write "Tie pas faire une part^'''' I wrote
amples given were noted at once.
Evidently in the
first
(I
express
by
let-
in
one
and
this
confusion
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
was the
"
FACT.
31
oTiTie,"
who
will not
own
rence.
It
is
an hypothesis
scientific
data,
but
apparently conforms to
it
facts.
It
movements which constitute the memory of different organsthe eyes, hands, arms, and legs.
These bases do not, in our opinion, consist of a
purely mechanical registration,
or,
according to
know
sheet
of
These
paper.
are*
we
key on the
metaphors which
Memory
is
a biological
fact.
rich
II.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
32
entire function.
its
Let us see
how
is
far
what
applicable
and the added effect of consciousness itIn passing from the simple to the complex, from the lower to the higher, from the
stable to the unstable form of memory, it is
here,
self.
and consciousness.
The problem is so involved in natural obscurity
and artificial mysticism that it is almost impossible to deal with it in clear and positive terms.
tion between unconsciousness
We
make
will
It is
we
We
no way
may
by Hartmann and
sciousness to consciousness.
plausible
from uncon-
We may
indulge in
more.
oth-
sci-
it can do is
some of the conditions ia which
to determine
they
All that
exist.
The
first
mode of
nervous system termed by physi-
activity of the
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
33
in a very indirect
ic
way
and discharges
citations
many
of
accompanied by consciousness
stages
or,
intermittent
at
life,
cease
we have spoken,
Nervous activity
examples.
Others are
etc.
is
are
is
so accompanied
is
always, or
between
these
group unconsciousness
this
is
is
In
to be studied.
let
istence of consciousness
1.
intensity,
able character.
may
result either
it,
vic-
tor or the
We
and duration.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
34
by Herbart and
clear
exalted state
may
say,
one of the
We
fails.
may
are
is
passed
conditions
justified
in
that
to
is
existence
of
small as
h,s
most
the
threshold of consciousness
until
that
others
conditions
but there
desired,
is
this
escapes
it
us.
dura-
Little attention
3.
is,
Here we
Thirty
from exact data.
years of investigation have determined the time
able
are
to
reason
nearest
touch,
0''-21
to O^'IS
light,
0"-20 to
reflex
action,
0''-02
to
0"-04).
Alcir-
under investigation,
it
is
at least
proved that
thought"
is
is
only a metaphor.
infinite
speed of
This known,
it
action
for psychical
In this
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
connection
it is
instructive to
FACT.
35
According to
flex consciousness.
re-
Exner,* the
a number
for
different
given
above
those
than
much less
If, as
Herbert Spencer
orders of perception.
says, the wing of a fly makes from ten to
must be from
0'''0662
to
have an example of a nervous state whose rapidity is astounding, compared with which a
nervous state accompanied by consciousness occupies an enormous period of time.
As a
result
duration,
sciousness
and that an
is
nervous process
falls
The duration of
force,
and according to
viii (1874), p.
:j:
whether transmission in the spinal cord is longitudinal or transThis subject is far from being exhausted.
t According to Marey, the wing of a fly vibrates only 330
times per second. Tliis discrepancy, however, does not affect
verse.
my
opinion,
it
will
In
of the
changes from consciousness to unconsciousness in acquired moveAn act is first executed slowly and consciously by repe-
ments.
tition
we
that
is,
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
36
is
we
If
ness as an essence,
consider conscious-
a fundamental property of
obscure
phenomenon having
its
if we consider
own conditions
as a
it
of
ex-
and unconsciousness
is no longer a mystery.
It must not be forgotten that a state of consciousness is a complex
istence,
all
becomes
clear,
accessory,
state
^its
existence
basis, the
that,
when
consciousness
and of
in
finishes,
itself
is
added the
itself
that
If
it.
one of the
or duration,
or others of which
we
complex phenome-
is
of
left
is
its
organic phase.
of
cerebral
Khich serves as a
more
activity should
"base,
It
results
become manifest
on,
marked
out,
moves
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
already
they
FACT.
37
but in an undeveloped
existed,
form.
and
its
mysterious charac-
is
memory, which
and found to be fully mastered the following day problems long pondered
over, whose solution suddenly flashes on the conpoetic, scientific, and mechanical insciousness
ventions strange feelings of sympathy or antipathy, etc. Unconscious cerebration does its work
In
noiselessly, and sets obscure ideas in order.
*
Holmes
and
cited
a curious case related by Dr.
by Carpenter, a man had a vague knowledge of
the work going on in his brain, without attaining
ness
man
in Boston,
much
busi-
having an important
"A
for him.
it up
But he was
given
palsy,
After some
up by the natural
all
solution of his
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
38
^worked
and
as he betroubled interval." *
out,
we may picture
traversed by continuous
In summing up,
system as
Among
the endless
rhythm
the nervous
discharges.
some respond
to
others,
by
stiU others,
far the
fibers,
even
directions at the
may
same moment.
The whole chapter
If
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
Consciousness
FACT.
39
is
all
work
this
is
able to
reach us.
We
have just determined the relation of consciousness to unconsciousness in the same man;
What
memory
memory
physiological
to conscious
added.
It is
applies in a general
;
only a single
factor
is
the question
way
it
in detail.
we
The
are to
'*
vestiges,"
"traces," or "residua,"
which
is
is
is
untenable.
A state
of con-
not represented,
is
a ^uvejlatus
nocis.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
40
possibility
of
brings us
when the
that Is to say,
existence reappear,
back
it
conditions
which
will reappear;
advanced above
to the theory
With us
sidua
" is
solved in advance
if
every state of
if
manent modification
this action
produces a per-
be recorded in
and something
our position.
affect
perception
is
that which
sufficient
more.
If the
responds to
to sustain this
''some-
that
solution is possible,
of perception,
style with
When
the eye
is
ex-
The
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
41
measurement,
is
a functional disposition.
It
may
No
first.
less
same imprints
that these
shows
consist essentially in
functional dispositions." *
memory than
might repeat here what
but the question has been
memory.
little
from
be better to consider
Each
number
We
wiU
in another form.
mals, cities,
recollections:
countries,
facts of history,
or sci-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
42
ence or language.
to us in the
and discern
complex
its
meaning.
of
an
apple.
ness, this is
a simple
an apple
is
an
is necessarily
perception of an apple.
tion suppose?
fact.
Physiology shows
illusion.
The memory of
What
by the
optic
the
to the cortex.
many
This
by no means
all.
It
is
But
this is
not a question of a
We
see, or
imagine,
These conceptions result from the exquisite muscular sensibility of our visual ap-
form.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
nerves
the
43
Each
branches.
FACT.
mination, and
is
own
its
ter-
intuitions,
spinal axis,
chical state
known
illusion of consciousness
to consider as a simple
fact.
com-
and proves too much in favor of our theory? Then take the recollection of a word. If
it is a written word it is again a question of
visual perception, and is allied to the instance
already cited. But if we take a spoken word we
plex,
find
the
Articulate
many
lips,
ent parts of
impressions in the
memory
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
44:
cation is greater
still.
Then
tlie
cerebral center
We
its basis
a determi-
What
ness: here
we
When we
begin to talk
consider
a soldier
of the brain.
able to recollect
them
MEMOKY AS A BIOLOGICAL
not realize that these words are
ple elements
many
regulated
simple
by
on
is,
45
made up
of sim-
Consciousness, which
fact.
is
FACT.
an
is
analysis,
interior voice,
The apparently
found to be complex.
an attack of acute
Winslow,
fever, all
knowl-
then,
we must imagine a
great
number
manner, each forming part of a distinct association and probably ready to enter into others
and each of these associations containing within
itself
states of consciousness.
Memory
eit.,
p. 258.
tell
in ratio with
us whether
it
was
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
46
ni.
We
memory
psychical
to determine
what alone
essential
and organic
conditions,
is
consti-
This,
in the
called recollection.
is
be-
all its
term
how we
its solution.
and in what
what time
It
state of con-
number
determinate causes.
ism of
mechanism of vision.
The distinction between primitive and acquired
sight-perceptions has been recognized since the
know that the primitive
time of Berkeley.
We
impression
is
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
47
form
that the
first
one
act,
experiment,
sis,
and
First
we have
analy-
observation
pathological
It is the
although
secondary states
and judgment,
localize it at
The
the
of
which
corresponding
reality.*
in the existence
This
illusion,
and dreams
tion, vertigo,
ceptions to correct
less
moment)
degree,
* Taine,'*
De
in all
1'
collection of facts
it)
(for
want of
real per-
states
of
consciousness.
ii,
oh.
i,
3.
subject.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
48
now speak
shall not
which a conscious state is deprived of its objective reality and reduced to a purely mental perception, but refer the reader to the explanations
given
by M.
Taine.*
it
its
content (wheth-
tion,
if
sus-
relation
to
so
classification
existence.
long
we regard
it
as a present
by which
tended series
less ex-
in time.
I
memory
is
or whether
mind
or whether
mental reasoning.
time
it
is
psychology.
cit.
The
a postulate of
mem-
a form d priori
is
is
by
explicable
of
experi-
criticism of consciousness,
* Op.
determine whether
not attempt to
shall
latter is
and not
to empirical
part, livre
i,
ch.
ii.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
that time
simple fact
that
memory
It states as
memory, and
implies
This
implies time.
49
is
sufficient,
do we
How
localize
We
deter-
by
in space
observed that
the
is
the present.
present
may
However
would lead us
must be
It
a real existence,
is
brief
it
metaphor
an
But
its
begin-
ning does not appear to us as an absolute beIt touches upon something with which
ginning.
it
forms continuity.
When we
read or hear a
commencement of
word something of the fourth stiU reEach state of consciousness is only pro-
the
fifth
mains.
gressively effaced
it
an after-sensation.
is called
and
fifth
the
other.
That
is
the
not an indeterminate
important
fact.
contiguity of
There
is
two some-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
50
is
theoretical
mechanism
be equally
clear, for it is
gressive transition
If
may
sum
any
state
Practically,
we have
recourse
to
processes
Our way
them.
erence points.
On
the 30th of
is facilitated
by the use
of ref-
November
am
looldng for a
book
of
that
my
man-
With
ner as Sunday, the 9th of November.
In analyzing this
this, recollection is complete.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
case,
we
FACT.
51
sciousness
^is
first
thrown
It
an indeterminate manner.
states, compares them, and
arouses secondary
"The image
travels
or less extended,
it
it is fixed,
remembered.
of the journey is
what
I designate as a reference
point.
I understand
by
of consciousness,
other distances.
are able
to survive
complexity,
are
oblivion, or,
through their
many
a nature to sustain
of
and to augment the chances of reviviThey are not arbitrarily chosen they
obtrude upon us. Their value is entirely rela-
relations
fication.
tive.
They
are for
example
will
liv.
i,
ch.
ii,
T.
An
excellent
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
62
These
refer-
make up our
series
the individual
There
place,
is
may, so
and com-
series
It
how
these reference
mechanism of
we call a
which
The impression
reference point
returning,
often to consciousness,
is
by
is to
very
that
hypothesis,
its
position in time
which sep-
As a
or seems to be (for
all recollection
better
known.
becomes
is
is,
on that
By
immediate,
The process
we
a reference point
repetition
this
localization
instantaneous,
automatic.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
is
FACT.
53
suffice,
Without
this
known.
is
disap-
lo-
would be very long and tedious, and restricted to very narrow limits.
By
its aid, as soon as
the image is formed, its
calization in time
primary localization
is
instantaneous
it is
placed
the
trials,
his
just
recollections, I
any
said.
serious
He
objections
will,
moreover, note
how
own
will raise
this
been
mech-
we have our
employ
which we
as units of measurement.
It will
and simple,
reproduction, pure
I find
what has
oc-
inductions,
deductions,
or
consist of
conclusions,
drawn
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
54
from the
past,
is
but everything
possible,
is
un-
known.
Evidently the
memory, since
it is
A man
has been.
fii'st
is
try house.
with
all its
teristic activity.
minate
and
it is
This image
Then
through winter,
of
its
at
it
first
indeter-
glides
spring,
The course
finally it is localized.
with
is
of the future.
present
it
of the year,
and changes
The
mechanism
one respect
differs
:
we
We
ning.
Theoretically,
we
in fact, only
points.
The mechanism
same as that employed in memory, only
the reference
is
the
it
acts
in a different direction.
To
tions,
we
MEMOKY AS A BIOLOGICAL
ty,"
but a
and that
fact,
aggregate conditions.
according
to
55
As with
recollection, lo-
degree
FACT.
the
conditions.
At
the
lower, those
which cause
appreciable time
tions,
in
ly,
trial
and stratagem
final-
our indecision
is
"It seems to
me
an
only attained by
some
hesitation, requiring
and
"
One
wanting
step more,
and
local-
case,
Toward the
own
books, and
when
How beautiful
to
"
What would
I not
similar anecdote
told of I^ewton
ferential calculus.
was subject
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
56
'
my
dear,
'
am
carriage
* Laycock,
*'
is
recorded
ory," p. 19;
Mem-
Walter
Forbes Winslow,
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
57
doubting that they were his own. Here the mechanism of memory was plainly dissevered pa;
Inter-
consciousness
of
tal
they remained
iso-
they seemed to be new because no concomitant state impressed upon them the imprint
sions
of the past.
it
often
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
58
requires an
sciousness.
In cases where
stantaneous
rapidity
its
it is
apparently in-
a result of repetition.
is
localization is
found, in
fact, in
new
only one
conclusion
it
We
^localization
operation
vision,
have
memory
in time.
In
which
hemia.
The
go over
it
by
moment very
to
vividly a visit
two hours.
visit lasted
I enter
ridors, halls,
and chapels
and decorations
I find
But
it is
impossible for
moment
me
of
to con-
two hours.
what happens when events are frequently rehave made the journey from Paris to Brest a hundred
times. All the images are superimposed, forming an indistinct
mass they are all, properly speaking, in the same vague state.
Only those journeys marked by an important event appear as
* Note again
peated.
recollections
awaken secondary
states
of
It will
be
ch.
ii,
6.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
It
FACT.
59
brief,
it is
because
we put our
faith in a time-
by
may
be, un-
The law
it
is
confirmed
we endeavor
if
to im-
duration
when
is
it is
the contrary
is
true
To study the duration of these small intervals he caused an assistant to observe for a
certain time the beatings of a pendulum, and then
to imitate them as closely as possible. The interval of the imitated series was always too long
when the original interval was short, too short
when the original was long. *
hours.
With complex
error increases
states
of
consciousness,
is
the more
the
dif-
* Vierordt, '* Der Zeitsinn nach Yersuchen," 36-111. Analogous experiments by H. Weber on visual perceptions, " Tastsinn
und Gemeingeftihl," 87. See, also, Hermann's " Handbuch der
Phjsiologie," 1879,
v,
ii,
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
60
ficult of
We can not
it is
we may assume
the contrary.
say
indeed,
If I represent the
my life by a line
same
In history the
illusion is
noticeable.
if I
am
This impression
is
it.
faced.
little
and are
remains
ef-
the
whence they
never emerge, and they take with them the quantity of duration inherent in each
consequently,
;
time.
is
an
pro-
elimination.
If,
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
FACT.
61
memory would be
in-
impossible,
We
sion
memory
is forgetful-
Without
an immense number of states of consciousness, and the
momentary repression of many more, recollection
would be impossible.
Forgetfulness, except in
certain cases, is not a disease of memory, but a
condition of health and life. We discover here a
the total obliteration of
ness.
To
live is to acquire
weU
solution as
two
and
lose
as assimilation.
Forgetfulness
is
dissolution.
its
very exacti-
who was
am
The
late Dr.
Pow-
Leyden was
re-
by a
it.
When he
lated
mencement
till
it
recall."
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
62
tude
is
it
If
we could com-
each of us
is
way without
created
it.
IV.
highest point,
its
inverse order
we
will
now
follow the
and return
registration.
more strongly
is
a new state
organic
no form of mental
activity
alone, are
;
that
is
morphology
many
disappear for
ever;
so
unstable
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
greater
number
However
may
clear
minimum
they have a
be,
But on each
organization.
63
our observation.
recollections
FACT.
whether
return,
of
vol-
Below
organized recollections
conscious
we
accentuated.
we
another group,
find
and semi-organized
language that
or a
is
this
for
example, a
manual art that we have only partly masHere the distinctively individual charac-
tered.
objective.
cause
it is useless.
terior state,
an original imprint.
it is effaced,
and
this
Little
by
little
an
art,
persistent.
It
an organic memory.
adult, is the
memory
mother tongue.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
64
Still lower,
ized
organ-
workman who
And
ballet-dancer.
We may go
lower
still.
The
exercise of each
But
much a
this is so
it
It is the
daily
at
life.
or that a certain
And
yet
we
gence belongs to
It is
memory
This chapter
is
as a product of evolution.
memory
192.
considered
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
is
an ideal sketch,
scheme.
FACT.
65
would be
It
doubly illusory to endeavor to circumscribe clearly an evolution which takes place by insensible
transitions, and which, moreover, varies with each
individual.
Can we go farther 1 We can. Below the compound reflex impressions representing organic
memory
flex impressions.
by long-continued experience
tion of
species.
We
in the evolu-
memory, which
enough to indicate
a specific
mem-
to hereditary
is
ory.
this hypothesis.
It is
we see that it is impossible to determine where memorywhether psychical or orIn what we designate under the
ganic ends.
collective name of memory there are series havIn
fact,
an incessant transition from the unstable to the stable, from a state of consciousness
with indeterminate acquisition to an organic
There
is
tinual
movement toward
simplification,
Thanks
to this con-
organization, there is a
Left to
itself,
with
registration
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
66
consciousness,
into an
automaton.
new
states of
consciousness
sentiments,
images,
desires
perceptions,
are
not
all
ideas,
retained
come
entirely automatic.
minds
realize this
Confined to a narrow circle from which they exclude so far as possible all that
they
taneous,
stability
is
new
or spon-
of
perfect
for the
superfluous factor.
ings,
ory
is
life.
the lowest,
tions
ponent
cells.
MEMORY AS A BIOLOGICAL
a
first
ter
FACT.
67
living matter.
of continuous
any
other,
sels
new
material,
molecules,
must ex-
the
new
Memory depends
But the
self
Since the
is lined.
They
a portion of
reproduction,
nutrition.
nourishment.
during
upon
directly
cells
life,
and we
on how
ory.
one form
only
duction
is
basis of
memory
is,
not
shall
of
nutrition.
The
When we
mem-
Physiologists
now
par
dwell
excellence.
upon
this
point.
progressive impairment,
we may
portance
of
nutrition
will
be
recur to this
evident.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
68
CHAPTER
11.
GENEEAL AMNESIA.
Mateeials
memory
are
They
abundant.
are
scattered
mental
and the writings of many psycholoThey may, with some little trouble, be
brought together, and we have then at hand aU
the facts needed to facilitate investigation. The
difficulty lies in classifying them
in giving to
disorders,
gists.
each case
its
proper interpretation
true bearing
its
ory.
in learning
of
mem-
dinary are
value
the most
extraor-
the most
Phymost
have described and studied only from a
part,
to
professional stand-point.
for the
disorder of
so recorded
is
to
it
nosis.
It
is
is
memory
and prog-
classification:
the
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
70
observer
is
thus
is
it
soften-
'^
of
ter
As
condition.
we
to classification,
are forced to
Our knowledge
that
classification
now,
to
obviate further
classification
it
by
is,
causes.
may
state
which follows
is
of value
only as
fused and
that in
heterogeneous mass
many
respects
Certain diseases of
it is
of
facts,
and
entirely arbitrary.
memory may be
limited
on the contrary,
Others,
memory
affect
the
completely dis-
over; or demolish
it
altogether
the
disorders.
first place,
We
shall
distinguish,
then,
in
GENERAL AMNESIA.
f
71
In
4.
conclusion, a few
words
Temporary amnesia usually makes its appearance suddenly, and ends in the same way. It
embraces periods of time which may vary from
a few minutes to several years. The briefest,
the clearest, and the most common forms are
met with in cases of epilepsy. Physicians are
not in accord with regard to the nature, the
seat,
The
solu-
It is
enough for us
know
three
forms
tic
vertigo
tinct
to
recognizing
varieties
same morbid
more
common
characteristic, des-
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
72
ignated
A
is
seized
He
soon
re-
moment
An
educated man,
himseK
at his
desk
ill.
He
office.
Unconsciousness lasted
about three quarters of an hour. Another epileptic, seized with a sudden paroxysm, fell in a
shop, got up, and, eluding the
friends, ran
behind.
shopman and
his
He was
all
trate
socie-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
73
what
he had done. Yery often acts begun in the normal state are continued by the patient during the
period of automatism, or words just read are com-
mented upon.
We
preceding chapter,
Nothing
is
so
common
in this
which
It is the
fact.
As
We may conclude,
automatism
is
not
also,
I be-
p. '693.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
74
is
In the
first place,
action consciousness
there
much
tent.
will,
is
diversity
it
if
as
we
in uniformity of
many
of a certain
cases
where the
epileptics,
Sev-
crisis in
child
made
their
own
replies.
The principal
GENERAL AMNESIA.
75
If,
in these cases,
that consciousness
it
reasonable to believe
is
many
The
The magis-
also af-
other instances.
and
obstacles,
passers-by,
fall
into the
Thames.
is
fixed definitely
intensities.
Here there
is
is
is al-
sum
of
repetition.
t. ii,
p. 114.
Falret, loc.
cit.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
76
expression.
bed, and
when
in
'
'
'
You
all
nary hour.
The
ef-
v, p.
124.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
They seem
extremely weak.
77
to be strong,
not
secondary position.
From
the
them
moment
of
into a
awak-
Images disappear
In
consciousness during
fact,
is
at a
minimum
of in-
tensity.
The
difficulty is in explaining
why,
in the pe-
a minimum.
falls to
chology
is
The question
amnesia
is allied
is
when
it
alone.
an
coming
to himself,
the night
ollection remains.*
* Magnan, " Clinique de Saiute-Anpe," March
3,
18T9.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
78
There
another
is
difficulty.
If
how
sciousness,
is it
amnesia arises
states of
ically
con-
is
Accord-
highest nervous
results
ters,
law
ters increases
when
of reflex cen-
We
problem.
If
we
insist
upon regarding
conscious-
by
itself
Asylum Reports,"
A very important
ret {loc.
cit.), is
vol. v, p. 111.
all
attacks in the
same patient, not only in general, but in the smallest detail. The
same patient expresses the same ideas, utters the same words, performs the same acts. There is a surprising uniformity in the different attacks.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
determine certain
ficient to
acts,
79
may
be
insuffi-
of a
of the other.
fatal
and
destruction
final
of
is
the progres-
memory.
studied
in
This
another
place.
We
pass
now
to cases of
of a destructive character.
temporary amnesia
In the
just
cases
tal is lost.
interest,
and
is
field
with
applications of
we may
learn
of
physi-
much from
to others.
These cases
differ
very
an-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
80
other.
begins with
sometimes
memory
the disease
it
cently past
of her life
up
is
absolute,
to that point.
... At
first
she
associates are
impostors.
But
conviction
and
realize
to the
other."*
* " Lettre de Charles Villiers a G. Ouvier " (Paris
Lenor-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
81
As
nesia,
chological courses,
to psy-
be found in
the
destruction of residua
of
their reproduction.
may
they
therefore to be attributed
is
and conserva-
Generally, in cases of temporary amnesia resulting from cerebral shock, there is a retroactive effect.
ness, is
The
patient,
found to have
lost
given
not only
all recollec-
on recovering conscious-
less
following,
by
be
Car-
penter.
A Mr.
dashed against a
wall,
On
i.
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
82
ever."*
We come
now
to cases of
amnesia
much more
oxysm
"When
consciousness began
in
return,
to
the
illness
impressions re-
When
propped up with
pUlows in bed near the window, so that passers
slowly from a dream.
'
trees
walking
'
and when
not separable.
* Op.
eit.^
p. 450.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
some time afterward, were
for
83
indistinct, and, in
blank.
anterior to the
mind
the
malady seemed
have saturated
to
sions received
after
cerebral record of
in the
before the
life
obliterated.
For
woman had
sup-
morbid
had no
When
it
a pen or
might be
grasping
was not
it
the
The most
perfect destruction
more completely
of education and
and
which follows.
reported by Professor William Sharpey,
This,
* " Brain
et seq.
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
84
one of the most curious instances of re-education on record. We give only the psychological
is
details.
com-
She remained in
was presented
ily
took
ifc
this
food
into her
when
satisfied,
fact,
and,
if
When
it;
flavors,
for
she
manifested an evident
refused others.
waking
at uncertain
answered no
member
occupied
in trying
to
re-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
to
85
a normal condition.
re-education.
"On
knowledge
everything seemed
all
new
to her,
and
individual
her previous
^not
was
restless
;
object.
Her memory,
everything she
;
with greater,
regard to these,
it
is
facility.
With
many
of
them
mind
"At
first it
them
before.
to engage
of answering a
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
S6
She did
applied them.
this,
often,
all
for
others
place of
this
for liquids.
For a long
it
was
possible,
used the
now
though she
is
terminations, or
"She has
change their
sometimes apt to
as yet recognized
of
her own.
no person, not
that
is to say,
she
known
GENERAL AMNESIA.
new
87
"Among
that of reading
but
it
was
first
did not
know a
She afterward learned to form syllables and small words, and now she reads tolerasingle letter.
much interested
unknown to her,
in several stories
which she has read since her recovery. The reacquisition of her reading was eventually facilitated by singing the words of familiar songs,
from the printed page, while she played on the
piano. In learning to write she began with the
most elementary lessons, but made much more
rapid progress than a person who had never before been taught.
Very soon
many
and
first
two or three
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
88
now
if
not better,
illness.
She
and
several
trouble
games
cards,
at
with
very
little
knit worsted,
it
slightest
before,
remembrance
although
recovery
has
it is
of having possessed
knowledge, which,
however,
them
previous
acquired.
When
asked
how
do the same.
or twice
related to
her recovery."*
So far as we can judge from Professor Sharpey's report, re-education lasted in this instance
* " Brain," April, 1879, p.
1, e seq.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
only about three montlis.
is
The
89
case, moreover,
by no means unique:
"A
intelligent child.
memory
"A
its
mind
re-
former wealth
like
child.
he was
learn
to
began
taught to read, and,
He made considerable progress, when,
Latin.
one day, in reading his lesson with his brother,
who was his teacher, he suddenly stopped and
put his hand to his head. Being asked why he
After learning
names
the
of
objects,
after this,
did
so,
he replied
'
cit., p.
317.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
90
in
my
knew
head
and now
it
appears to
From
me
tliat I
am
moment
to bring these
may
little
transition
We
com-
a case
Any
see, in fact,
a provisional
memory gradually
memory.
young woman,
primitive
A
of robust constitution and
good health, accidentally fell into a river and
was nearly drowned. For six hours she was insensible, but then returned to consciousness.
Ten
days later she was seized with a stupor which
lasted for four hours.
When
and
smell,
as
well
as
the
power of
speech.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
So automatic was her
ner.
life
91
such as flowers,
articles of clothing,
waste paper,
was sup-
etc.
Later, she
after,
made
to compre-
hend the
from day
difference.
day
to
of
urally
made a
namely, her
When
strong
fall into
affair.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
92
at the
mere sight
to another.
of it running
When
them
together.
From an
man
to
whom
young
he was
when nothing
else
would rouse her. He came regularly every evenand she as regularly looked for his coming.
At a time when she did not remember from one
hour to another what she was doing, she would
ing,
if
out the
pay her a
visit;
fretful through-
she became
unhappy and
irritable,
of
and suffered
spasmodic rigidity
When, on
and
insensibility.
One day,
GENERAL AMNESIA.
she suddenly cried
out,
some
witli
From
93
hesitation,
it
her childhood.
"The mode
was
Her health and bodily strength seemed completely re-established, her vocabulary was being
extended, and her mental capacity was improving, when she became aware that her lover was
paying attention to another woman. This idea
immediately and very naturally excited the emowhich, if we analyze it, will
tion of jealousy
;
On one
in duration
in a
fit
of
When
sanatory.
down
The
off,
she
veil of oblivion
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
94
was withdrawn
awakening from a
sleep of twelve months' duration, she found herself surrounded by her grandfather, grandmother,
and
and, as
if
and acquaintances, in
the old house at Shoreham.
She awoke in the
possession of her natural faculties and former
knowledge, but without the slightest remembrance of anything which had taken place in the
year's interval, from the invasion of the first fit up
to present time.
She spoke, but she heard not
she was still deaf, but, being able to read and write
as formerly, she was no longer cut off from assotheir familiar friends
From
She
facility
'
of,
November 15 and
29, 1845.
Vide
GENERAL AMNESIA.
are to be derived from
moment, we
its
95
For the
a few remarks sug-
pathology.
limit ourselves to
It is first to
be
observed that these, although grouped indiscriminately by medical authorities under the general
head of
by
is
Yilliers
frequent.
because
If
repetitions.
by
It is
and
less
In cases belonging
to this
in a word,
memory,
is
in
in its or-
Pathological destruction
highly developed
memory, properly
so called.
Moreover,
affects the
it
must
most recent
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
96
events, extending
able duration.*
At
vari-
any
all.
In
recollection
But
on.
is
amnesia in this
of
for registering
new
At
first,
impressions
is
probably
the faculty
temporarily
suspended; as they appear, states of consciousness vanish and leave no trace. But preceding
recollections, registered for weeks,
where
are
they?
months, years
they have been conserved and frequently reproduced, they seemed to be a stable acquisition,
and yet
fice
the
The patient is
indirectly and by art!
able to regain
them only
re-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
suppositions are possible
of anterior states
is effaced,
the conservation
or,
stroyed.
by
represented
Winslow
group
the
scious
We
by the
(that of
classed as
work
all its
of re-
to decide arbitrarily
cases cited
Dunn
and
by Sharpey and
less frequent,
intermittent amnesia).
of destruction is complete
forms
power
It is impossible
97
organized,
is totally
Here
memory
in
semi-organized, or con-
suppressed amnesia
;
is
complete.
by
other ele-
DISEASES OE MEMOEY.
98
memory and
nutrition.
Finally
all
^for
npon
observations
where the
we
loss
and return
of
memory
amnesia
in
cases
are sudden
phenomena
of
by WSy
of illustration.
An
n.
The study of amnesia in
its
Ego and
periodic form is
It will
be
since
it
difficult for
they
is
But
I shall
indispensable to
I shall
be sparing of
the
GENERAL AMNESIA.
pastime.
The
Azam
consciousness" being
detailed
and
common
90
ular
I shall
taking
up
amnesia in
first
its
manifestations
the
of
periodic
The most
clearly defined
Unexpectedly,
knowledge.
vestiges,
It
all
oblit-
for her
by new ^orts, the art of spelling, reading, writing, and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around,
like a being for the first time
* Page 167.
100
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
world.
made
considerable
proficiency.
On
rousing from
fit
it,
new
state
and she
as uncon-
is
For ex-
fine
new she writes a poor, awkward hand, having not had time or means to become an exthe
pert."
four years.
Setting aside for the
moment
all
that con-
two personalities, it
should be noted that there were formed here
two memories, each complete and absolutely independent of the other. Not only was the memcerns
the
alternation
of
entirely
memory
and hopelessly
of con-
dissevered,
by which we
write.
tell
and
to
us whether or
GEKERAL AMNESIA.
no
this disruption of
101
memory extended
to
to its
was obliged
to learn
anew the
etc.).
But,
remained
is
still
two
distinct
as complete as
Azam
Dr.
The
traces
least, is
of
This,
at
Revue
Scientifique,"
December 22,
187T.
The author
says,
"con-
memory "
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
102
his horse,
moTiiit
drive a carriage,
follow the
and say
prayers at
his
memory
consciousness
But the
to stability.
organized, instinctive
mem-
A second,
less
be of
much
value.
may
summary wiU
woman
suffice for
our purpose.
of hysterical
the normal, or
serious,
grave,
first
condition, the
reserved,
and
In
woman was
laborious.
Sud-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
103
normal lifey
lier
with a trance.
On awaking
first
But in this state she had no recolof what had occurred in the second conshe remembered only anterior normal
condition.
lection
dition
periods.
With
up
in a few words.
her
alter-
she
had only a
impressions re-
to
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
104
There
a
change
was also
in character, and, during the
period of complete memory, the patient designated the normal condition as " Wetat Mte "
the "brute state."*
It is
this
a part of the
is
is
to
both conditions.
Azam
tells us,
read,
write,
count,
cut,
and sew."
complete disruption.
memory
There was
by Macnish,
of
common
of mental activity.
Our exposition
III.
may
amnesia
periodic
be profitably concluded
met with
natural
induced.
Usually,
somnambulists,
but in each
of preceding crises.
law
they are
or
have done
Macario, of a girl
crisis
there
is
recollection
The
who was
case,
recorded by
May
And
20,
Dofay,
ibid., 1876,
July 15.
8.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
105
no remembrance of it on awakening, but revealing the fact to her mother in a succeeding crisis, has been often cited. Dr. Mesnet
attack, retaining
family,
was made
role
most graphic
condition if any allusion
it
up the
in the
It is
is
we
find, first,
an
In
extreme cases (Macnish) the two memories are independent of .one another; when one appears,
the other disappears.
each
utilizes, so to
speak,
its
is
self-supporting
own
memory employed in
and writing is not a common
organized
ing,
Each
material.
The
two
10
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
106
In each there
states.
is
a distinct recollection of
The
em-
latter
the former,
form in the
life of
nected fragments.
from the
and
others,
memory which
enter
indifferently
into
either
group.
As a
individual appears
at
ing a double
The
depending
life.
memory, the
least to others
^to
be
(or appeariiig to
liv-
Ego
with those
There are
is
not a primitive
analyzed.
much
And
this leads
us to a great subject,
we must
treat it as
GENERAL AMNESIA.
a side issue
we
107
sonality.
Ego
conceived
Such an
Let us
first reject
hypothesis
is
the idea of an
useless
and contradictory;
its
it is
infancy,
sum
of
conscious
There
states.
is
of a
a central
The highest
conscious states.
extended period of
or less
and
is
replaced
maining
states
mechanism
of
by
state, after
vitality,
a more
succumbs,
that of vision.
nourished by the
present state
is
memory
associated
is
for the
most part
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
108
In
two ways
the
is
brief,
:
sum
the
Ego may be
considered in
and then
it
its
outlined above.
in precise terms.
it
It
than a habit.
a bodily condition
is
is
But although
no more recognized
it is felt
neither in
is
it is
135.
[Tr.J
but
it
its
well-being, and
activity of
GENERAL AMNESIA.
and of
mark
itself,
its
109
normal
state, it
All observers
by
intellectual disorder,
So an organic
lesion, often
ignored,
may
normal sensation of existence a condition of melancholy, mental distress, and anxiety, of which
the patient
is
or,
and
it
is
not a
mode
is
which
is
felt,
of
and that
This bodily
imperceptible.
is
condition,
as
personality
ever-present,
it
knows
is
the true
ever-acting,
neither sleep
life
itself,
of
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
110
which, indeed,
is
it is
only an expression.
This
it
Ego
cesses,
the
first
finally
economyand
unity.
It
is,
is
a center
its
pleni-
powers.
place
skeleton,
tegument
with
all
all its
new
vessels,
the
viscera,
muscles, in-
of
thesis represented
the
new
of juvenescence, there
antagonism.
would be an
This hypothesis
to a certain extent in
morbid
is
irreconcilable
actually realized
cases.
Anaesthesia
GENERAL AMNESIA.
made
"When
place at puberty.
action,
what takes
new organs come into
cases, note
after
or-
by
little
circle
of
sentiment
of
personality
metamorphosis.
undergoes
Until assimilation
is
radical
complete,
or temporary, are
is
discord between
* Griesinger,
The
*'
entire passage
an excellent
analysis.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
112
tions are
formed
new Ego,
is
developed.
in the
is
stage
evolution
of
produces
Ego
results
Sometimes the
new
its
accumulated wealth
that
is
Ego
nected
with any
new Ego
memory
but, uncon-
appears to the
cceneesthesis,
as an extraneous entity.*
to
e.,
phenomenon
it
has
the sentiment of
speaking,
only a secondary
is
its origin
in vital disorder
existence which
is,
properly
This
is
the
nated herself as
''
la
A maniac,
full
of interest,
cussion.
desig-
memory
who always
only the
two memories.
Of the
primitive I^go
GENERAL AMNESIA.
If
we continue our
swer
II3
we
1.
What
is
Upon
this point
What is
the principle
the coensesthesis
is
We
know.
The
the power
certain groups,
others
We do
that
not
is to say,
and dynamic
a state (A)
but
is
asso-
of reproduction alone
sources of activity
groups
is lost.
of
is
two
able to stimulate
incapable of influencing
is
incomplete disruption of
the memory.
To complete
between
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
114:
attacks of somnambulism.
depends,
it is
is
produced, and, as
ened.
many
There
duction to
is
a simplification of mental
an
almost
mechanical
awaklife, re-
condition.
It
is
differ totally
from
GENERAL AMNESIA.
or, at least,
115
In the
unknown
causes.
dissenting
health,
prayer being
sermon.
On
all
the
the
On
text,
and
descending from
remembrance
of having gone through precisely the same service
on the preceding Sunday. He was much alarmed,
the pulpit he
slightest
known
we
had
left
it.
As
teach us
may be,
p. 444.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
116
the
Ego than
to that of
their value in
memory.
and continuous,
tion is slow
memory
plete destruction of
rule,
The
its action,
but
it
very simple
is
there
is
also learn
There
it
is
how
it is
a morbid
organized.
We
cases
exceptional
or
rare,
peculiar,
be-
is
we
little to excite
memory,
have no
to
detail.
which
of disease is a progress-
ive lesion of the brain (cerebral hemorrhage, apoplexy, softening, general paralysis, atrophy).
During the
initial
The patient is forgetful, and althe most recent events. A task inter-
are manifested.
ways
of
rupted
is
forgotten.
soon effaced.
tom
in
Partial amnesia
general paralysis in
is
its
common sympearlier
stages.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
117
At
is
The
conclusion, tacit, at
memory
lows no law.
We
fol-
contrary.
To
is
it
When
is
is
passed, there
ulties
tive
condition.
them
all
the fac-
reduced to a vegeta-
different kinds of
classing
is
the pre-
dementia according to
calises,
The
is
at
bottom the
* Tlio
as a
in a medical sense,
is
the
and not
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
118
we have
selves.
memory
to concern our-
Does loss of
dissolution follow any regular
in this
arises,
order ?
Specialists
who have
left
descriptions of de-
to
to
apply
it
in this direction.
and
others),
we
If
we
consult the
Baillarger,
Fabret,
1.
a fact of such
It is
memory
common
A priori
it
experience
is
hold upon
unobserved.
latest impressions
mo^t
stable
grave
nervous
are
is
impressions.
modification in the
cells,
new
a new
of
GENERAL AMNESIA.
new dynamical
least,
associations, is
permanent.
stability
and
perception
is
119
possible,
or,
at
entirely new,
it is
and soon
If tlie
if regis-
effaced.*
past
there are no
and
means for localization in time.
But modifications established for years in the
nervous elements until they have become organic dynamical associations and groups of associations called into activity hundreds and thou-
these remain
sands of times
the technique
of science
guages
disappear
Intellectual acqui-
command
little
by
and
little.
Personal rec-
art, profes-
of foreign lan-
toward the
last
to disap-
fourteen months.
Felmann,
*'
came
to visit
for
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
120
Even
pear.
in
own
vived, as it were,
words that
Expressions are
language.
by
accident
may remain
but, ordinarily,
in the
memory
re-
any
are re-
phy which,
first
is
an
atro-
first
thought
it
are
faculties
much
At
effaced
intellectual faculties.
Reflection will
feelings are
ered, independently
Primarily consid-
innate.
any
of
may
subtle
or
complex
The
bones
all
contribute
body
the
some-
GENERAL AMNESIA.
121
self.
rive
is
when
a period should
ar-
to disintegrate personality.
4.
Many
tracted.
life
able
dress them-
to arise,
selves,
selves in
games
are
to
such as
organic,
entirely
last
manual
frequently
labor, play at
cards or other
with remarkable
skill
while
minimum
of conscious
inferior order of
cerebral
ganglia,
memory, belongs
memory having
the medulla,
its
to that
seat in the
cord.
We
of
memory
law.
It begins
It
to the
manent and
It
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
122
From
stage.
the
first
movement
natural forces, and
last the
sistance
that
tlie series
amnesia
to say,
is
Thus pathology
term of
to the
governed by
follows the path of least reof
of
is
least
organization.
confii-ms
viz.,
of organization is variable
and
is
the
comprised be-
new
state
organic
registration.
me
to be a nat-
may
How-
moved,
it
will
to further test.
If
memory
be
re-
growth
in the process of
it
di-
forms which
first
to
to the higher.
It
is
extremely
difficult to
that the
memory should
The
first
requirement
return of
little.
itself.
Cases
Moreover, pro-
is
by
recovery.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
123
memory "gradually
returned."
cited,
it
follows in
its
Louyer-Vilis
concrete
ment.
facts,
There
is
to
little
re-estab-
material to
"There
is
who
tronomer
definite
work upon
forgot in turn events of recent ex-
breach continually
to be hopeless.
remained.
But
gan
His
memory was
The following observation is still more prethe symptoms were noted from hour to
cise;
hour.
I transcribe
Taine, "
De
it
almost entire:
I'intelligence,"
t. i, liv. ii,
ch.
ii,
4.
Kdmp>
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
124
"I must
first
insignificant of themselves,
phenomenon.
my
left foot
November he went
brother.
same
He
On
to Versailles
the 30th of
to
meet his
night, and,
letter
by the
injured
now come
December
this officer
was
On
the
We
first
of
at the riding-school,
much
From time
assiduity.
to time,
*
He was
in.
me
as usual, saying,
ing.
is
standing, recognized
What
natural,
me and
he
greeted
His speech
'
PAcad^mie de M6decme,''
1835,
t.
iv,
'
GENERAL AMNESIA.
and complains only
125
head.
"Notwithstanding
my
and those of
servant, he remem-
inquiries,
ney
He
fall,
He remembers
etc.).
moment.
"Six hours after the accident the pulse berise, and the patient takes cognizance of
gins to
made
so
many
times,
still rising.
You
fell
me
'
the
to
pulse
is
have seen
once before.
" Two hours and a half laterthe pulse
is
nor-
begins also to recall his visit to Versailles yesterday, but so indistinctly that he says
his foot.
if
He
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
126
However,
the memory continuing to return, by night he became firmly convinced that he had been to Versailles.
But here the progress of recollection
ceased for the day. He went to bed without remembering what he had done at Versailles, how
he had returned to Paris, or the receipt of his
father's letter.
" December 2d
of all
and the
return of memory is in a determinate order from
the most distant to the most near."
Is not this observation, made at random by a
man who
is
fall,
row
limits the
law
is verified.
I regret
more
my
ina-
facts of
an extended search.
GENERAL AMNESIA.
When
127
hope
On
the
by
may
observation,
the contrary
proved.
is
It
may
be further cor-
roborated
is
biology.
It is
It
is,
first
resist
crisis.
new
go down on every
solid,
life
to de-
side.
The
houses,
Finally, in
proceeds from
Hughlings Jackson
was the
first to
show
it
nervous system
that
the
lower,
were
the
first
to
disappear;
We
have stated
the
new
memory
law of
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
128
In showing us
subject.
solved
how
and reconstructed,
memory
memory
us
teaches
it
is dis-
what
It
is.
the
by
later on,
we
shall,
its aid,
eral survey.
pressions
We shall
ders of
memory
of regression,
that
now
by
especially the
of amnesia of language.
group
The law
are governed
and
we have
acts.
Upon
to determine in
be
what manner
brief,
it
would be puerile
to suppose that
ses to offer.
It
recollections
form
>
GENERAL AMNESIA.
129
by
mal, bit
of the
bit.
to the
may
It
be
summed
up in a few words.
It is
activity of the
sions,
latter
may have
very
filaments).
The
different positions
from
Con-
(1) upon a
(2) upon the
dynamic associations.
Such are the physical bases of memory.
Primitive acquisitions, those that date from
they include the
infancy, are the most simple
formation of secondary automatic movements in
the education of the senses. They depend principally upon the meduUa and the lower centers
and we know that at this period
of the brain
we have designated
as
developed.
every reason
be
stable.
why
In the
these
first
first place,
is
acquisitions should
Nutrition
is
very
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
130
by
the old,
More-
over, the
should be better conserved and more easily reproduced than any others, and that they should
But
if,
al-
through
change
repair
if
then
and the
A man
when
begin to
trition,
fail
the
if
waste
associations weak.
is
is
in excess of
become unstable
Take an example.
impressions
He
rapid.
scape,
or witnesses a play.
sum
of auditory
plex groups.
this
there
particular
is,
or
this
particular
play
new except
GENERAL AMNESIA.
Sounds, forms,
and
colors,
131
plexus
new com-
itself,
unequal.
It is
asso-
very
therefore,
later on,
planations will
ever,
that
the
It
suffice.
Whether
portance.
These ex-
is
it
is
is
of secondary im-
accepted or rejected,
unchanged.
ly.
There
is little
to be said
congenital amnesia.
our discussion
with in
upon the
may be
complete.
in cretins.
Most
subject of
a minor degree,
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
132
the routine of
memory
is
Among
found.
frequent
rule,
victims
of
are
amnesia
congenital
there are
limits,
life.
the
make up
certain
The
blunted.
form in
arrest of
all respects.
development
It is
is
not uni-
memory should
co-exist
an extraordinary
retain
an
air
to
and an aptitude
memory
of
figures,
for drawing.
dates,
Cases of
reply to a
single
question, nor be
GENERAL AMNESIA.
trusted even to feed himself."*
unable to
make
133
Certain idiots,
an
error.
recite,
word
was an observer:
boy
of fourteen, almost*
an
idiot,
read.
He
When
letters
allowed
that
it
idiots
memory
me
common
and
imbecUes.:}:
It is
so
is
p. 95.
who became
work out
at sight the
most
DISEASES OF MEMOKY.
134
by mania
idiots attacked
Thus,
"an
idiot, in
fit
or
had been a
wit-
common
truth
viz.,
that
is
abnormal.
But the
the
am
inclined to
symptoms
referred.
chapter.
* Griesinger, op. cit, p. 431.
CHAPTER
III.
PAETIAL AMNESIA.
I.
subject of partial
am-
memory
for
first
thought
else
that, if
popular fables.
far
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
136
a morbid influence.
Tlie use of the
is
word memory
perfectly justifiable.
common
in a general sense
designates a faculty
It
to all sentient
when
memory may
may
the
organs,
life
of
an
which compose
it.
anatomical elements,
the
tissues,
"The
ancient and
still
unex-
ploded error," says Lewes, "which treats memory as an independent function, a faculty, for
which a separate organ, or seat, is sought, arises
from the tendency continually to be noticed of
personifying an abstraction.
ing
it
common
for the
it
Instead of recogniz-
what
is
sum
of such facts,
many
writers suppose
While common experience has long demonstrated the natural inequality of different forms
of
memory
in the
same
individual, psychologists
this point or
Dugald Stewart
* Op.
cit.,
prob.
ii,
have denied
its
seriously aflirms
p. 119.
PAKTIAL AMNESIA.
137
to
of
Gall,
the
first
ulty
its
ence of
Contemporary psychology, more comprehensive and exact in its investigations, has discovered,
a considerable number of facts which leave no
doubt with regard to the inequality of memosame person. Think, for instance, of
artists like Horace Yernet and Gustavo Dore
ries in the
memory
of chess players
down
in relative order
t "Fonctions
of
* "Philosophy of the
name
Human
da cerveau,"
Mind,"
it
twice.
For
p. SOT.
t. i.
do not see
X I have had occasion to note that several calculators
the figures in their problems, but hear them. It matters little, so
far as our theory is concerned, whether the images are visual
or auditory.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
138
is
referred to special
my
for
purpose
if
It will suffice
are granted.
The
partial
memo-
case,
it
de-
a good
vis-
is
ac-
certain
moniously.
Consequently,
(and these, as
we have
are
stable,
more
definite,
and
when we say
anatomical
* Lewes,
120
Taine,
<yp.
In short,
and physiological
cit. ;
constitution,
we
oj). cit., t. i,
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
state the conditions of
We
may go
further,
139
first
memory
de-
upon the
retina
applicable to hearing, smell, taste, and those diverse forms of sensibility comprised under the
If
in
we think
fact, to
aU the
sense-per-
each person,
if
these
we
same
relations to
differences,
may be weak
According to con-
transmitted
impressions
so
it is
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
140
referred directly to
gans
or-
ion.
have no reason
by any other
to
we
nated.
ment
and
different organs
hence unequal
although we
is
shown.
different
it is
field in
made
but
work.*
it
lies
tant one
to be
not be forgotten.
must
an impor-
ieq^.
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
141
is
it
by nature
to extend its
unable
relative
ory
may be
fact,
We
may
by reason
alone.
It
memis,
in
which follow
1. Every recollection has its seat in a definite
and determinate portion of the encephalon;
cerebral hemi2. The encephalon and the
spheres are
made up
of a certain
number
of total-
its
special
its fellows.
is
But
do
In physiology the distinction of partial memories is a familiar truth * but in psychology the
;
method
ognition of
memory
* See in particular Ferrier, " Functions of the Brain." GraAnat. compar6e," t. ii, p. 460) says that each sense has a
corresponding and correlative memory, and that the mind, like
the hody, has its temperaments which result from the preponder-
tiolet ("
13
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
142
regarded as anomalous.
at the most,
It is
local
it is
some authors
we
dynamic
asso-
to
be retained,
active form;
memory,
it
particular
service.
in partial dis-
orders of the
We
If,
come now
forms of
different
pendent,
it is
memory
natural that,
if
morbid
state
it
group of
recollections.
results
It is true that
This
is
one
The
from
many
to a single
not surprising
PAKTIAL AMNESIA.
I43
when we remember
exists
their functions,
and
states.
There are
sia is
very limited.
cases,
A complete study of
partial amnesia
would
ne-
group of
recollections
may be
temporarily or permanently.
in turn suppressed,
Such a
task,
We
how-
can not
ef-
faced,
bring forth.
one form of
which existing knowl-
that
of
The
cable
above.
review what
is
known
we
Reserving
shall first
amnesia.
Persons, according to Calmeil,* have lost the
*'Dictionnaire," en trente volumes, article " Amndsie."
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
144
power of reproducing
and have been forced
certain
forms,
a foreign language,
existence
of
recorded
by
their nearest
Sir
or
colors,
to give
ing.
tones
H.
proper names,
the
The case
relatives.
cited.
*'I
remaining
While
underground
in
each.
spector
says,
German
in-
Every Grerman
again."*
its class, is
not unique.
known
of
memory was
otherwise unimpaired.
of languages acquired
by study has
The
loss
child,
is
coming
to himself,
he was found
On
to have forgotten
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
all that
was
145
Nothing
else
lost.*
who had
A patient,
cases.
mu-
These
facts,
showing the
ther on.J
ized
his horse
disappear
momentarily,
remain
stable recollections
A surgeon,
and remained
for
some time
insensible,
his
own
treatment.
But he
plained
=**
to
and
this condition
be ex-
Is this case to
by mental automatism?
The
subject,
the
memory
Proust,
p. 156.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
146
We
amnesia
complete evolution
as
to recollect the
name
of
Von
afterward to
B., formerly
St.
visit,
*'
Turning round
tell
make
immediately to a gentleman
.
to the name-plate
whom
'For God's
said,
sake, tell
is
followed
traveler,
ex-
He
could neither
made by
another.
Forgetfulness of
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
persons
not at
is
of very frequent
its
normal
state,
is
a fact
occurrence,
even in
147
form of memory,
oped and unstable in many individuals, resulting as it does from a complex mental synthesis.
'
striking
may.
example
is
given by Louyer-Yiller-
in the
company
of his wife
whUe with another womhe had been accustomed to visit frequently, and exclaimed, continually, Madame, I
an
whom
'
must go back
Carpenter
tells
to
my
us of a
gentleman of considerable
whom
although
viously,
'
lic
place.'
friends,
or in
He
still
continued his
visits
their
to his
own homes,
article
*'
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
148
one of the oldest friends of both, usually residing in London, but then staying at Brighton,
itself
more conspicu-
of association to be (as
it
'
memory
He
progressively failed.
itself
aided,
by
It
actual im-
The name
of the place
may not
be revived
asso-
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
149
ciation
weak.
But
since
is
the person
often too
follows,
it
ciation
recollection of
contiguity in
space.
The surviving
cate-
which,
left to
inactive.
of
memory
To
most perfectly
we have no
positive answer.
established, or
this
by
feeblest.
Reason
influences follow
Observation seems
we
by hypothesis
Moreover,
be contrary to the
method
scientific
it
in the
would
to apply a
150
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
A careful analysis of
is necessary before
would be possible
it
its causes,
to assert
But
know
As
we must
partial amnesia
fall
to psychological condi-
back on hypothesis.
may
re-
Cases of
The
first
In
cephalon, and, consequently, between the different psychical states, generally speaking, persists.
sum
of recollec-
we
are igno-
PAKTIAL AMNESIA.
151
II.
One form
here use in
we
The term we
all
methods adopted by man to express his sentiments and ideas. The subject is almost unlimited,
and is rich in facts at once similar to and different from one another, since they have a common
psychological character and yet differ in nature
as to whether they are vocal or written, or are to
be classed as gestures, or come under the head of
drawing or music. They are easily observed, accurately localized, and, through their variety, lend
shaU
see,
We
we do not propose a
It is true that in most cases aphasia is connected with a disordered memory, but there are
other influences to be considered which do not
sia.
concern us.
The
in its application.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
152
ing cause.
deprived of every
mode
of expression
aphasia of gesture
very
is
others are
mce versa;
Sometimes the
rare.
and graphic
signs,
it
correctly
and
Aphasia
cecity).
sometimes
sometimes permanent,
is
transitory.
by hemiplegia, which
is
independently of amnesia,
to writing.*
As
often accompanied
It is
there
is
of itself
is also
Happily,
it
this treatise.
cult, is to
does not
Our
lie
an obstacle
theme
is
evident.
diffi-
and
It is clear, in
the
first place,
that
we
alone.
are not
memory, nor
where the faculty of transmission
with cases
alone
is
stance in the third left frontal convolution, re* Left-banded persons always have hemiplegia on the left
side.
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
153
But
difficulty, since
common
type.
make
tries to
himself understood
by
gestures.
is
What
it is connected with our special object.
has taken place in the psychical state of the
as
patient?
is
the
memory gone?
of signs
is
Reflection will
not comparable to
Sprache," p. 99.
f
The
literature of aphasia
enumeration of
titles
would
fill
is
many pages
of this work.
mere
From
14
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
154:
a foreign language, or a
period of
mind
the
life.
in this sense
is partial,
It includes tlie
it is
whole activity of
general
recollections,
and
is
and yet it
ideas and
If
few words
is
enlarge
upon
it
here.
and
it is
little atten-
impossible to
and summary
Keeping
that feelings,
general,
of
ideas,
memory when
residua
consisting, as
we
ele-
ments, and
elements.
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
there be
But
and reproduction.
conservation
155
Those
employed in
as explained
we
we have
would be impos-
of
motor
residua
being ad-
amnesia of
as
signs.
said, of
Each term
it is
not
so.
When we
all
as-
in the series
It is
speak or write.
The existence
mitted,
time, it
first
above.
but
speak or think
composed of the
In the normal state the
Idea and
its
expression.
may
be disassociated.
pair is
is
so complete
It is exact
which
aside
is
from the
mental
representation
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
156
idea and
is
there
it,
is
Nor
is
this alL
by
vocal
signs
other
of
Around the
etc.).
languages
About the
same languages.
of the
mind every
adult
is
it
group.
is,
We see,
mining
When
signs.
this
number
is
around
of deter-
understood, the
clear.
so,
a portion or
all
tirely forgotten.
may
have disappeared
The question
is
not whether
we
made use
of signs
are able to
The subject of
;
"
;
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
157
Facts point to the negative. Although it is generally recognized that aphasia, when serious and
of long duration,
tal
is
when
there are no
means
of
place
it
by a paraphrase
or description.
They
he
lives,
where
by his
place
the
by
designate a
titles,
man
his pro-
fession, inventions
we sometimes
others are
In the latter
to be
made, and
and
profitable."
his physi-
memory.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
X58
We
made every
ble to
effort to reply,
but
it
was impossi-
remember a word."*
lyzed the
symptoms
connect
to
brain, as if
it
but,
when
"was capable
and of
lecture
consultation."
the patient
of his
of
comprehending a
his thoughts
sought expression in
For
"De I'aphasie,"
p. 96.
cit.
Lordat was an ardent
and from that point of view drew conclusions with
regard to the independence of the mind. He deceived himself.
In the judgment of those who knew him, he did not regain his
original faculties after nominal recovery.
See Proust, op. cit.
details, see
spiritualist,
Trousseau, op.
PARTIAL AM^TESIA.
residua,
its
to
this
complex
159
We shall therefore
relations.
all
return
again.
it
When we
own tongue
or
acoustic signs
brain.
But that is
They
must be repeated until they pass from a receptive to an active state, and we are able to translate the
acoustic
This operation
movements.
when
cility
that
duced
We
movements.
these
is
into vocal
the
consists in
signs
is
movements are
to say,
when
easily repro-
When we
the eyes
hand.
Here there
cate movements.
is
We
when
that
when the motor reThe same remarks are applicable to music, design, or expression by gesThe faculty of
ture, as in the case of deaf-mutes.
movements
is to say,
expression
is
on general observation.
it
appears to be
Ideas or sentiments to
(or visual)
mem-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
160
Why may
it
is
memory which
the motor
is
is
we not
if
common
object,
idea
acoustic
is
sign,
since
there
organs
remain
but
may
the
impossible while
intact,
it
the
must be that
also
a discrimination
is
similar
visual signs,
Some
is
when
the original
cases,
is invariable.
In
absolute affirmation.
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
161
them only
or at least recognizes
and prolonged
hesitation.
On
is
we have
seen that
in certain
extempore
speech;
but
this
exceptional.*
is
although rarelythat
ter
the patient
is
able to ut-
who
al-
show that
is the same
are,
motor amnesia
It
is
not invariable.
memory under
revives.
An analogy may be
ject of aphasia, in
it
cited in passing.
The sub-
who
is
re-
the psycho-
logical
disassociation.
it
An
impression
is
forgotten
series.
* Falret,
it
when
does
ejp. eit.,
p. 618.
is
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
162
unable to resuscitate
its
corresponding sign or
the disease
did not
itself
subtilty,
afford demonstra-
tion.*
It is this close association of the idea, the sign
renders
it
is
by analysis alone to
separation among these three ele-
show
definite
ments.
It
tient
Kussmaul,
PAKTIAL AMNESIA.
is called
the
minimum
of de-
mind would be on
way
163
motor elements alone are effaced in such inOn examining the opinions of the few
stances.
physicians
psychology of aphasia,
form.
"if aphasia
is
my own
theory
except' in
instinctive
stammer forth his first words, or of a deafmute who, suddenly cured of his deafness, attempts to imitate the speech of persons which he
hears for the first time. The difference between
the victim of aphasia and the deaf-mute would
then be, that one had forgotten what he had
learned, and that the other had not yet been
to
taught."*
must be
words
6>p. cit., p.
718.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
164
phenomena
as groups of acoustic
other
memory
2,
there
is
an-
for
Trousseau
wegungshilder).
aphasia
may
memory
always be reduced to
a loss of
means by
responding to an
idea,
its
^must
we
believe
the cortex?
we
loss
to
of
What
anatomical
conclusions are
of
writing
Are
motor residua
as some physiologists
think?
we
We
can only
are unable to
The
relation
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
165
we have now
is
it
pointed
whether
makes no
out
difference
Sometimes aphasia
Sometimes
chief
its
hypothesis
this
is
follow.
to
very brief
of
but
admitted or not
it
and have
characteristic,
is
with what
is
especially
duration.
the pa-
if
condition
is
the greatest
interest to
by stages,
more and more
place
say,
so that the
in
rational language
interjections
language
3,
^ what
memory
is,
2,
1,
is
takes
effaced
with a regular
accordance
This sequence
sequence.
Dissolution
us.
wordsthat
is
to
exclamatory phrases,
Max MuUer
calls
emotional
Let us ex-
amine these three periods of dissolution in detail; we shall then have made a comprehensive
study of amnesia of signs.
1. The first period is much the most important,
since
it
comprises
the higher
forms of
again
dissolution follows
15
a determinate
Here
order.
DISEASES OF MEMOKY.
166
names
is
latter in turn
"and
says Kussmaul,
noticed
lost before
''
Substan-
especially proper
other parts
'^
This
fact
has only
Very
We
names
substantives
adjectives,
and,
and verbs which express qualiand acts. Signs directly expressive of quality are the last to disappear. The
savant mentioned by Gratiolet, who, having forgotfinally, adjectives
ties, states
of being,
by
and
so,
qualities.
idiots
It
stage of designation
The notion
of quality is the
* Op. ciL,
most
p. 164.
many
(Itard).
stable because
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
the
it is
first
to be acquired,
167
and because
it is
As
which has
extension, and the general that which
the particular
the least
is
may
necessarily that
the
we
memory
number
represented,
is
definitively
In con-
from Kussmaul
"As
the
may
memory
fails,
its
The cause of this is that our representation of persons and things is less firmly associated
with their names than with their relative abstract
appear.
or qualities.
of persons
name.
On
concepts only
them a
that
by the
stable form.
we
is
to say,
the
acquire abstract
That
is
why
verbs, adjec-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
168
tives,
tions,
the
mind
tlian
substantives.
We
may
suppose
connections
organic
with
its
sign
are
uniting
the
abstract
idea
equivalent to what
we
said above,
last
phrase
viz.,
that
that
is
to say, as
the
number
its
of
The
abundance of evidence. The evolution of language takes place, as we would naturally infer,
in an inverse order to that of its dissolution in
aphasia. But before having recourse to the law
of the
historical
development
of
language,
it
would seem reasonable that we should first examine its individual development. This, however, is impossible.
^Vhen we learn to speak,
our language is borrowed. Although a child, as
* Op, cit,
p. 164.
PAETIAL AMNESIA,
169
"learns a language
said,
al-
is
to say, as a creative
creates nothing.
We
are
It is
now
number
certain
of
two kinds
of roots,
verbal or predicative,
nal or demonstrative.
is,
position.
therefore,
"Names
an affirmation of qual-
nouns
of
are derived
is plain.
language
stages of
its
De
la science
works of Max
artifically
Mtlller
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
170
3.
way
In examining in a general
law of
tlie
memory, we saw that the memsensations was effaced after that of ideas.
the regression of
ory of
By
we
are .considering
signs the
gressive amnesia of
pro-
language of the
This deduction
is f
uUy proved by
obser-
vation.
lings
Jackson,
many
word
etc.)
have recorded
aphasia, com-
and incapable of
articu-
that
is
of
oaths.
We
states of
first
to
We
have here a confirmation: the language of the emotions is formed before the lan-
faced.
guage of ideas;
it
disappears after.
Again, the
The foregoing
is
applicable
to
gestures.
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
171
all, is
mode
of
reflex expression.
appears in the
It
savage tribes
it
spoken words.
In certain
is
rarely
which we find
imitative disorders are always," says Kussmaul,
"of an extremely complex nature. Sometimes
lost.
"Those
cases of aphasia in
Hughlings Jackson, who has given special attention to this point, notes that in certain cases the
He
also
by Trousseau
a remarkable ex-
is
ample of purely motor amnesia as affecting ges" I held my hands before me and moved
tures.
my fingers as if I were playing the clarionet, and
requested the patient to imitate me.
am making
the clarionet?'
tion.
You
see,' I
the motions of a
He responded
few minutes
* Op.
later I
cit., p.
160.
He
did so
said to him,
man who
plays
with an affirma-
asked him to go
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
172
He
was
reflected for
mim-
icry so simple."
Reviewing what we have gone over in this section, we see that amnesia of signs progresses from
proper names to substantives, then to adjectives
and verbs, then to the language of the emotions,
and finally to gestures. This destructive movement does not take place at random it is governed by a rigorous principle from the least organized to the most organized, from complex
to simple, from the least automatic to the most
automatic* What has been said above with
regard to the general law of reversion of memory
might be repeated here, and it is not one of the
;
is still
When
they disappeared ?
I find,
by
It 18 a
gestures.
still
vnit-
by
many
subjects of aphasia
who
PARTIAL AMNESIA.
expression returned
little
by
173
little, first
manifest-
might be found
if
special atten-
by
qualified ob-
servers.
"Kevue
etc.,
1873,
t. ii,
p. 684.
CHAPTER
IV.
been
lilnited to
forms destructive of
diminution or effacement.
its
are cases
memory
entirely
we
But
opposite in character,
traordinary intensity.
mem-
as
it is
order, or with
dis-
than that of
Its
it
study
is less
instruc-
We
moreover,
persistence of recollections.
Excitations of
tial.
memory
are general or
par-
I.
General excitation of
fine, since
tive.
It
memory
is difficult to
would be necessary
to
is
de-
entirely rela-
compare memory
The
power of memory varying with the individual,
there is no common measure
amnesia with one
may be hypermnesia in another. It is, in fact, a
change of tone produced in the memory as in all
;
nation, sensibility.
excitation
induction.
Moreover,
tion of consciousness,
and as consciousness
can say
is that,
all
particularly
culation.
only
we
to
is
that
it
memory seems
physiological causes,
Hence,
up on
and
It is still
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
176
cause.
moment
minutest incidents.
who
agree
of asphyxia they
seemed to
unrolled before them in the
One of them testifies that
life
seemed to
not in mere
being
filled
accompanied by a
and wrong."' An analogous case is
"a man of remarkably clear head," who
sense of right
that of
"was
when an
proaching him.
self
down
He had
just time to
throw him-
two lines of
rails,
train passed
is
an
last
great
in its
normal
state.
* For these cases, and others of like nature, see Forbes Wins-
memory due
to
intoxication
manner
it
De Quincey
"Sometimes," writes
in his "Confes-
them
for, if
had been
told of
them when
my
past experience.
But,
and clothed
tuitions,
(p. 259).
memory
are transi-
opment
of
injuries.
stories
it
follows certain
of oft-repeated
etc.).
These statements
among
may
Mabillon,
may be
others,
16
modem
may
observers,
be ac-
Romberg
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
178
manent development of memory after shocks, attacks of small-pox, etc. The mechanism of this
metamorphosis being inscrutable, there is no reason why we shonld dwell upon it here.
II.
Partial
excitation
is
memory being
is
is
it
tive of partial
in another
memories.
way
that the
memory
Each
is discernible.
an isolated
that
fact
made up
of
to determine.
Why
case presents
is
cells
is
Hy-
mnesia no law
itself as
amnesia
very noticeable.
we
are unable
We
cases
seem to
of a
The only
be any trace
memory.
from mor-
guages returned
successively
to
but
it
sometimes oc-
"A
ease,
the country
to a lodging in
was taken
it
to
and,
have been so
when a
friend
who was
it,
'
have a
before,
'
'
the matter.
that, be-
p. 120.
DISEASES OF MEMOKY.
180
when he was
about eighteen months old, she had gone over
with a large party, and taken him in the pan-
nier of a
donkey
on
the roof of the gateway where they would have
been seen from below, while he had been left on
the ground with the attendants and donkeys."*
The mechanism of recollection in these two
cases leaves
it
in space.
first
possible in the
length find
it
same material
situation,
suddenly revived?
As
and
at
to hyper-
At the age
p. 431.
of
fif-
districts,
and
Unfortunately, authors
of one language
several languages.
who have
reported facts
article
" Hypnotisme,"
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
182
of
them as simple
of
curiosities
The most
"Dr.
who
visited this
Ital-
In the be-
way
of a
woman
sub-
At
first
the attack,
German
and,
we
Frenchman
find
entered
illustrations
in
more simple
abundance.
perfectly, received a
more instructive than the following, also reported by Dr. Rush. He knew, he tells us, a
tion
Mind,"
p. 277.
EXALTATIONS OF
AffiMOKY,
OR HYPERMNESIA. 183
who he was
sure
Rome, aU
Church of
memory
work goes
are
first
on, descending, so
to layer, until
that
is to
it
destroyed,
say, the
most stable
incites
them
to
temporary
activity, brings
consciousness,
* Op.
cit.,
t Op.
cit., p,
ibid.
266.
interesting illustrations.
Tn.]
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
184:
negative
conditions entirely
regression
would
result,
make
itself
weak
tions of infancy
nothing
theii'
left to
is
freedom of
action.
I shall
by
Perhaps they
will
be able to explain
how
certain
moments
are
Independently
hypermnesia
is
the
surprising
persistence
of
termed residua.
of
If it
istence
their ex-
go to make
de-
Must we
from these
infer
absolutely nothing
that
entered there
most
is
lost
when a perception
it is
Many
indestructible
fleeting impression
revived?
revivifications that
may
be at any moment
authorities, particularly
Maury,
trations.
if
residua sometimes
illus-
to main-
morbid
disappear,
there are
It is pos-
causes,
and dyBut
last.
we may
and that
it
includes an
how
this
namic associations as the material basis of recollection, there is no memory, it matters not how
crowded it may be, that is not able to retain all
that comes within
* See
February
article
1,
its
by M. Delbceuf
1880.
in the
"Revue PhilosopMque,"
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
188
We
temporarily
leave
disorganized,
number
The possible
of
may
is
field
revivifications
But
suppose
free.
being
greatly diminished,
that
dynamic
most stable
associations.
my
of proof, since
purpose
is
to
There
is
which precede.
or at least
cases being
any
is
It is
known, and
it
"particular designation.
Wigan
calls
it,
Sander, an
imillu-
have given
which seems to me
to be preferable to either of
the foregoing.
It
n3w
state has
that
when produced
when present at the funeral of the Princess Charlotte, in Windsor Chapel, he suddenly had the
conviction that he
somewhere
before.
seem
to
Coming
we had already
with which we are
if
first
time,
we
into the
we feel
as
Reading a book
unfamiliar, the thoughts and
seen him.
if
The
The received
and
sufficiently distinct to
new
state is a repetition.
There
a basis of
is
is really
in the recorded
experience.
If this
explanation
is sufficient
where
it is
inadmissible.
An invalid,
the death of
upon learning of
a person whom he knew, was seized
Sander teUs
* Lewes, op.
cit.,
us,
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
188
with an undefinable
terror,
because
it
seemed to
''It
he knew of the event before.
previous,
while
that
some
time
I
was
seemed
lying here in this same bed, X. came to me and
him
that
to
said,
'
me
Miiller is dead.'
I replied,
'
if
he met a
aU the attendant circumstances, appeared so familiar that he was convinced of having received
the same impressions before, of having been surrounded by the same persons or the same objects,
under the same sky and the same state of the
weather. If he undertook any new occupation,
he seemed to have gone through with it at some
previous time and under the same conditions.
The feeling sometimes appeared the same day, at
the end of a few moments or hours, sometimes not
till
distinctness, t
* Sander, " Archiv fur Psycliiatrie," 1873, iv.
*'
ArcWv
is
The
patient,
even
his
received impression
an image
is
There
it
a repetiis
occurs in the
state, gives to
tion.
It
may be assumed
grade manner.
For
my
nation following.
rectified.
to
is
wrongly
if
17
relegated
it is lo-
This illusory
if
state,
we take
although
DISEASES OF MEMOKY.
190
but, as
it is
it is
produced
by it,
It takes
it
it,
as
it
appears to be
To us, judging
is so, in fact.
from the outside, the idea that the impression has
been twice received is scouted as absurd. To the
;
from the testimony of conscioustrue that the impression has been re-
patient, judging
ness, it is
tion is incontestable.
tion, it
is
may be well
to note that
pseudo-memory
is,
The formation
and
we Lave
* If
memory
in insanity
very different
it is
states,
mentioned
tia, etc.).
It
tention
is
may be
his at-
demen-
if
is
who
visited him.
This
much
confused.
when
When
is
less
less
is
unable to remember what took place during his insanity, the assertion should
be
accepted with
reserve,
since
shame often
memory without
effacing
it
it
CHAPTER
Y.
CONCLUSION.
To
memory,
and
causes,
is.
of
immediate organic
to these
memory is very
known concerning
very brief space. Memory
may
and what
is definitely
be stated in
consists of
upon nu-
cir-
culation.
I.
Conservation, which
is,
reproduction
is
We
CONCLUSION.
193
This
pressions.
tulate
first
it is less
condition
is,
therefore, a pos-
mental
granted,
ceived
of a healthy
state.
it is
aU persons
memory.
re-
conserved
and -filaments, and the dynamic associations which these elements form
must be stable. This result can depend only on
nutrition.
The brain, and particularly the gray
substance, receives an enormous amount of blood.
There is no portion of the body where the work
of nutrition is more complete or more rapid. We
are ignorant of the special mechanism of this work.
upon the
nerve-cells
effects
all
the rest
is
We
hypoth-
tered
tion.
by them,
We
also
is
a matter of
know
is
easily mas-
common
observa-
of memory) are more readily acquired in childhood and youth than in after-life. At the former
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
194
new
tlie
processes of mitrition is
lished.
effacement of
new
quickly learned
is
soon forgotten.
What
is
The expres-
phor.
For the
ment
do
its
* "
consequence of the sudden illness of another actor, had occasion to prepare himself, on very short notice, for a part which
was entirely new to him and the part was long and rather difficult.
He acquired it in a very short time, and went through it
*'in
with perfect accuracy, but immediately after the performance forgot every word of it. Characters which he had acquired in a
more deliberate manner he never forgets, but can perform them
at
character
now
time,
to interrupt the
cit., p.
103.)
CONCLUSION.
Fatigue in any form
195
to
is fatal
With a
and languishes.
conditions
memory
by Holland,
Fatigue
often impossible.
superactivity in an organ by
suffers
memory.
returns.
Tlie
reproduction
is
a result of
vrhicli
nutrition
return to normal
The incident
related
explicit testimony
upon
this
We
point.
have
son wanting.
Finally,
that disease of
memory
it
is
for
some
rea-
should be remembered
in its gravest
form
^pro-
paralysis
is
The
capillaries
and
latter finally
cells
disap-
These facts
physiological
is
and pathological
between nutrition and conserof cause and effect. There is
DISEASES OF MEMOEY.
196
If
metaphysical sense as
existing
"a
when
their condi-
The extreme
ra-
would seem
to be a source of
of recollections.
"The waste
following activity
and a
nutrition,
is
restored
by
distinct
with each
by
an
ac-
is
We
memory
as a
an impregnation. Hence it
not surprising that the eminent English sur-
biological fact: it is
is
geon. Sir
James Paget,
nent modifications
made
by
"It
is
asked," he says,
"how
can
CONCLUSION.
suppose
how
all
197
its
is it
is
not as destruc-
tive of all
The answer
injury is?
is,
of sensuous
by some
great
pression
by an imwhether in perception
upon the
brain,
or in intellectual act,
is
it
is
exactly represented in
the part which, in the course of nutrition, succeeds to it." * Paradoxical as it may appear, the
memory
is,
rig-
orously exact.
II.
Reproduction, more-
circulation
it
is
dependent upon
the
circum-
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
198
Nor
fluence.
is this all
we must
also consider
its
quantity.
even in a general
We
duction
The
tions.
lows
impressions have
of
by extreme cerebral
at
view are as
fol-
Fever,
memory
the
correlative varia-
known
culation
is
We
participates.
what point
It is
activity.
of excitation it
is
accompanied
In this activity
may be
effaced.
cir-
from
its
normal
state,
mnesia.
sions of trivial
things, in
which no particular
impressions of
high^when
exercise,
when
or pleasure,
or both,
had
That at
CONCLUSIOK
when
times,
lation to
sensations yielded
by surrounding
of
a fact noted
human
ease
199
by
clustered
objects
are
often throughout
We
nature." *
may
when
life
the blood
is
blood
is
changed,
puscles and
long illnesses
composition of the
In those exhausted by
albumen.
memory
is
"Highly nervous
culation.
whom
the
life
it
subjects,
is
too,
fast
as
the
symptoms
natural rate
of
in
greatly low-
inability to think
cir-
and
which diminish as
circulation
is
re-
gained." t
Exaltation of the
circulation is increased
hasheesh, opium,
etc.,
in a state of depression.
1,
p. 237.
v.
i,
effect,
p. 235.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
200
bromide
of potassium,
for
wMcli
example,
is
clergyman
From a
a general conclusion
memory supposes an
active circulation,
we reach
and blood
and disintegration. When this activity is unduly increased, there is a tendency toward morbid excitation
when
it
there
decreases,
We
can
is
push our
Why is
a given group
We
any other?
much
do not know.
an explanation.
it
would be vain
so
arising
from infinitesimal
by which one
single
nervous
element
;
is
limited
have
destroyed
or
to attempt
It is
organic modifications
is
or hypermnesia that
If
There
advanced the
of
rest.
Some
theory
that
memory
are
CONCLUSION.
201
local
many
memory,
of
In cases of com-
lation
and
nutrition.
If
that
is
problem
is
from re-education
chief part devolves
(as
it
upon
ordinarily does),
The
lost.
cells
the
The rapidity
shows that all was
nutrition.
If recovery result
may have
been atrophied
the
bases
new
cells
that
of
memory
re-established
tendency of
its -type,
are
every
by
the
virtue of
organism to maintain
transmit
its
memory
in this case
to
ity.*
* For details, see " Brain," articles cited in cL.
18
ii,
1.
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
202
III.
possessed
by
a general function of
is
It is
tions.
ence,
we have
them
all,
upon the
essential to
memory
is
damental conditions of
The
memory
is
all
that
is
Psychical
circula-
is
conscious-
rest
only superadded.
many
If
we
psychologists
diseases of
memory
and, as
more inand suggestive, than a general description, we have given of each morbid type clear and
authentic examples. Having passed in review a
special observation is of greater service,
structive
we have sought
conclusions.
to
In the
CONCLUSION.
203
we have sliown the necessity of resolving memory into memories^ the independence of
each form being clearly established by morbid
first
place,
We then
cases.
memory
followed a law.
little
lowing conclusions
In cases of general dissolution of the
1.
ory,
path
mem-
an invariable
general, feelings, and
acts.
2.
mon
gestures.
3.
destructive
process
is identical.
to the old,
The exactitude
solution of the
memory
recollections return in
is
where progressive
followed
dis-
by recovery
DISEASES OF MEMORY.
204
explanation
extraordinary
for
certain recollections
ward
revivification
of
logical principle
Degeneration
first affects
what
and upon
this
it
re-
conclusion
Memory
consists of a
two extreme
registration.
limits
the
new
state,
the organic
IKDEX.
Apple, analysis of the memory
Abercrombie, 181.
Abstract concepts,
memory
of, 16Y.
quired, 15
Agraphia, 152.
movements,
Automatic
progressive, 71
peri-
con-
Azam,
in-
82-94;
total,
degree of
95;
proportioned
organization,
movement
of,
of,
meaning
tial,
151
of,
138
memory,
95,
Biological
96;
Broadbent, 170.
66.
gov-
Broca, 170.
par-
of signs,
155, 160
ac-
become
131; temporary, of
to
how
localizations
automatic, 52.
of, 42.
last to dis-
appear, 127.
odical, 71
progress of amnesia of
signs, 172.
Classification of diseases of
ory, 120.
mentia, 118.
151; varieties
chronic, 160.
and mem-
ory, 197.
mem-
Clifford, 11.
Coenaesthesis,
of,
152;
108-112;
variations of the,
cause
of
how
to
113;
;;
INDEX.
206
Colbum, Zerah, 131
Coleridge, 181.
Combe, 105.
170,
memory
of,
in,
Conjunctions,
167.
ex-
134.
74
sia,
in epileptic
nature
mechanism
extent of, 11
amne-
double, 98;
memory, 18;
78
of,
of,
relation to un-
its
consciousness, 32
existence, 33
psychology
conditions of
its
relation to
Degree of organization,
168
explains
aphasia, 169.
178
partial,
stability of
its
relation to
memory,
167,
96.
Fabret, 118.
De
Facts, the
Quincey, 177.
70 partial, 70 general, 70
immediate causes of, 192.
;
of,
dissolution in
its
Dementia, 117.
of,
psychological
Extension,
examples
of, 73.
amnesia,
of, 168.
Epileptic
memory
processes, 11
71
Concrete concepts,
its
memory
183-186.
Fever,
as
a faculty, 11.
excitation
of
memory
in,
198.
Forgetfulness, a condition of
88.
ory, 61
Foville, 118.
Dunn,
Functions, now,
97.
mem-
how
acquired, 13i
Gall, 137.
66.
; ;
INDEX.
Gratiolet, 166,
207
Language,
loss
151; historic
of,
Hemiplegia, 152.
Law
128.
Heterophasia, 152.
Holland, Sir Henry, 141, 195.
Huxley, 11.
Localization of
of, 19.
1
38-
142.
142.
52
in the future,
55
instances of
57
53
its
stages of,
absence, 55-
never instantaneous, 58
dis-
appears, 63.
Locomotion
is
a secondary automat-
ic
21.
bers, 146.
Idiots,
131-134; memory
how
determined, 49,
50; use of reference points in,
memory
Linnaeus, 55.
in time, 46
roform, 181.
Hypotheses, need
of, 159.
of, 166.
of,
169.
Macaulay, 57.
Macnish, 104, 105.
Maudsley, 11, 34, 108.
Inhibition, 98.
Maury, 185.
of, 95.
is
Ivanhoc, 56.
of,
feeling, 120.
essen-
implies time, 48
tially
68
61
ry,
its
highest form,
INDEX.
208
67,
acoustic, 159;
nature
161
of,
double, 106
of
case
116-122
loss of,
its
law of
of
order
123-127
its
re-establishment,
of,
137
136; causes
of,
varieties
a word, analysis
43
of,
178
42
of,
175
135
of,
an apple, analysis
excitation
the word,
import of
136; inequalities
55.
dis-
nature of
Newton,
states,
77.
fail,
121.
how
instances of, 17
acquired,
seat of, 16
of
14
of
gen-
W., 164.
Order of intensity of mental
Ogle,
partial
Opium, 199.
fatigue in,
195.
sciousness
Partial
amnesia,
116
Partial disorders of
Partial excitation of
in, 74.
of,
of
signs,
151.
memory, 70.
memory, cases
of, 179.
109.
Morel. 73.
as affect-
memory
case of,
imperfect
104; gen-
in,
Mozart, 137.
results
from drunkenness,
only
115.
109
stract terms, 167
how
derived,
its
true basis,
169.
dis-
Primitive
how
its relation to
con-
Nervous
Primitive acquisitions,
why
stable,
129.
eases, 70.
Nerve
automatic
movements,
acquired, 15.
recovery
Pronominal or demonstrative
169.
roots,
INDEX.
Pronouns, memory
Proper names,
209
of, 168.
loss of recollection
of, 166.
shown
in locomotion, 21
their
Sharpey, 97.
169.
Pseudo-memory, 186
explanation
Psychology, results of
study, 79
of, 189.
relation to signs,
its
its
151.
Stability of
how
recollections,
at-
Psychology, the
new
its
regarding memory,
teachings
upon memory,
9.
Substantives,
memory
of, 82.
Puberty, 111.
Taine, 47, 169.
Temporary amnesia, 71
of a de-
Recollection, 10
12
what
first
it is,
46
contraction of, 59
condition of,
stages of, 55
its
of, 34.
nature
Thought, speed
of, 97.
61, 52.
Unconsciousness, 86.
Verbal
roots, 169.
Verbs,
memory
of, 167.
Vertigo, epileptic, 71
72 suicide in, 73
;
Reproduction of
cells, 67.
disappearance
of, 185.
Residuum, 196.
Rogers, 56.
Roots, verbal and pronominal, 169.
Instances of,
42
mechanism
of,
it
46
implies,
illusion
of, 61.
Wigan, 186.
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