LOSS OF MEMORY

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1932, Page 3

LOSS OF MEMORY

STRANGE CASE IN PARTS. A strange case of double personality in Paris has been brought to the notice of the Academy of Medicine ny M.. Marineseo. After a severe attack of pleurisy a young female law student lapsed into long sleep. When sue woke her memory was completely gone. She had already passed several law examinations, hut appeared on waking unable to understand a word of French, which she had previously written and spoken with perfect fluency. She seemed, in fact, to find herself in an unknown world. But what most astonished the doctors in attendance was the girl’s knowledge of foreign languages which she had never spoken before she went into her long sleep. She spoke fluently in no fewer than twelve. Tn writing, however, she used her left hand instead of hey. right, though she had never been known to write with her left hand before. After being carefully coached in French she has learned it again as would a child,, and is still studying elementary arithmetic, although she used to he a good mathematician. | flow during the girl’s sleep she Required twelve foreign tongues and , completely forgot her own is a proh- ■ lorn of sub-consciousness personality which is being much debated by the members of the learned assembly.