"But a result could be noted again when Professor Forel connected the suggestions to the period, which the patient had spontaneously retained in his memory, thus carrying out a method corresponding to the one which had led to favorable results before. This time was the end of his passage on board the Oroya. The suggestions therefore took the shape of declaring that Mr. N. would now remember the first part of his voyage homeward, and then the embarking, and lastly the reasons which impelled him to take this step. The patient was consequently able to relate a number of details of what he experienced on his voyage home. He stated that, unlike the majority of the other passengers, he did not land at Colombo, and that an English sergeant, with his wife and children, had come on board at this place. He was able to remember a large number of details respecting the life on board the Oroya; one little girl had taken his fancy greatly: he had often played with her and had carried her about Apart from this, the life on the steamer was not particularly congenial to him, and he had therefore not responded to the invitation to take part in various amusements. He remembered very vividly two deaths having taken place when they were in the open sea, and also the burials at sea. He occupied himself while he was on board by eating, sleeping, reading and walking about. In this way he only lived for the present, knowing, as he now believed, that the destination of his journey was to be Europe, but without caring about what had preceded or what was to follow. The remembrance of his departure from Z., of the embarkation in L., and of the first part of his voyage, had still not been recalled.

"A number of hypnoses, in which the attempt was made to fill up the defects still remaining in bis memory (these were by this time comparatively small), failed for the time being. The patient did produce a whole number of new remembrances, which, however, he had to refer to the time of his voyage to Australia. Then all of a sudden the recollection of a long railway journey by night suddenly made its appearance, albeit indistinctly. This journey was to have brought him from Z. to the port of embarkation, L., and the patient represented it as being in uninterrupted connection with the journey from O. to Z., which he now remembered again. In connection with this he had a misty impression that he must have put up at a small second-class inn in L. He was again hypnotized immediately, and given the suggestion that he would recall all about this inn clearly, and also his whole stay in L. up to the time of going on board. He then became capable of describing the said inn in detail; he described the house as a low-class beer-house, and was quite disgusted with himself for having chosen such bad lodgings, for he certainly must have had enough money with him. The name of the inn was a three-syllabled one; it was situated close to the station, and his room was so small that there was not enough room for all his luggage to be brought in. During a further hypnosis the patient was given the suggestion that the further details concerning his stay in L. would occur to him during the course of the day, and that he would also have a clear idea about embarking. On the following morning Mr. N. reported that the name of the street in which the hotel was situated had occurred to him; the name of the inn began with an ' M,' and was followed by an 'o' or an 'a'; the word was the name of the proprietor, but he was not able to call the name completely to mind. After the next hypnosis, in which the suggestions were repeated, Mr. N. related that he had kept to his room during the daytime as a rule, and only went out toward evening. He had not thought much during this time, and was only waiting for the arrival of the next ship. The weather was disagreeably cold at this time. He now obtained the feeling that he had not then realized that he had already been in L. previously (on his voyage out). In response to the suggestion that he would again recall the arrangements in the harbor and the embarkation, these recollections also returned to him fairly clearly. Mr. N. then described the landing-stage; remembered that the train had brought him right up to the ship's side, which was ready for departure, that there was another ship lying alongside, which he saw again in Colombo; and that there was a large crowd of people on the quay. It now occurred to him that the departure for another continent had not made the least impression on him on this occasion, as it had always done on previous journeys. He then called attention to the fact himself that it was chiefly the time when he was hooking his passage which he could not remember. Even this recollection was produced in response to definite suggestions pertaining to this point, and Mr. N. then named the street in which the agent lived, and also stated the price of his ticket exactly. He was not able to remember giving a wrong name, but believed that this must have arisen through a misunderstanding on the part of the English stewards, who did not understand what he had said.

"On the following day we were successful at last in filling up the remaining gaps still persisting in the memory of the time just mentioned during a number of hypnoses following one another, always in response to suitable suggestions. The patient gave the following consecutive account: He had practically not slept a wink during the time of his bodily illness in O. He had then taken a first-class ticket to Z., being quite aware of what he was doing. He fully intended waiting till he had completely recovered in Z., where he had his quarters, and then returning to 0. to continue his business. The railway journey had taken a long time, and had lasted all night. His compartment at times was full of passengers, and at times was fairly empty, so that he was able to make himself comfortable, and he had fallen to sleep several times. Having arrived in Z. in the forenoon, he at once booked to L., but left the station, where there were no waiting-rooms or refreshment-rooms in which one could sit down, and engaged a room in a small inn in the vicinity of the station. Here he took some refreshment, and went to sleep for some hours. It never occurred to him to go to his quarters, or even that he possessed them, nor that he had ever been in Z. before, and that he had a lot of acquaintances there. He then made a few small purchases - e.g., he bought a comb - and traveled in the evening to L. with the ticket which he had taken in the morning. He could not remember any reason for having left Z. again, but believed that he had had the feeling of being a stranger in the place, and of not belonging to it, and he had therefore seized the first opportunity of traveling on. On arriving in L., he made his way into the nearest very primitive inn, as he had done in Z., and as he had already related to us. He now remembered the town of L. exactly; he had stayed there for some days, had walked through the same streets every day, had bought his ticket for the passage to Europe, as has been stated above, and then awaited the arrival of the steamer. The town of L. appeared to him to be entirely strange, and he had to inquire his way about, although, as he was now aware, be had actually spent a few days there on his way out. On this occasion also, he was not conscious of having stayed at the place a few weeks previously, and the idea never occurred to him to look up any of his acquaintances. He could not remember having met a lady at the station, as had been described by a third person, but believed that if this were a fact he had simply not recognized the lady again. He was again able to recollect the circumstances clearly concerning his embarking: he had driven in a cab from his hotel to the station, a distance of about ten minutes' drive, and had then traveled right up to the ship's side by train. He was also incapable of ascribing any reason for going on board ship, and could only state that he had had the desire of getting out of Australia as quickly as possible, as he felt quite out of place there. He had been perfectly aware that he was in Australia, but did not know how he had got there, and that he had any business there, or what the nature of that business was."

This extremely instructive and curious case does not need much comment Mr. N. is absolutely trustworthy, and, apart from this, many of his statements were confirmed by third persons.

From the type of the remembrances of the non-retrograde portion of the amnesia - i.e., of the return journey from O. by way of Z. and L. to Naples and Zurich - it appears that he was in a condition of dissociated, somnambulic confusion of thoughts during the whole of the time. He must have lived without any thought of the future, and have forgotten the past day by day. The remembrances of these events reappeared independently of any real connection with one another. They were dreamily vague, and were accompanied by marked changes of emotion. He became so clear as to the state of affairs that he told me that he now realized that if he had not had plenty of money with him he would have died in misery in L. He was lucky in having booked his passage to Europe. On the other hand, the remembrances of the retrograde portion of the amnesia (the journey out) were normally associated.

This case is a mine of wealth for the mechanism of the memory and for its analysis. The amnesia remained cured. I must beg my readers to consider the case especially in the light of my views on consciousness.