Two unique cases of insanity : possibly epileptic / by Theo. W. Fisher.

  • Fisher, Theodore W. (Theodore Willis), 1837-1914.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Two unique cases of insanity : possibly epileptic / by Theo. W. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    u ments as they disappeared. She did not see any visions on the left side. For months she could only get glimpses of them. In the spring of 1884 they remained in full view. The first of her unreal visitors to become visible, was a gentleman about thirty-five years old, of pleasant features, brown hair and moustache, well- dressed iu grey or dark clothes. He usually had a pistol which he handled, and then put to his temple, nodding his head as if urging her to shoot herself Sometimes he had a knife. Another frequent visitor was a large, pleasant look- ing lady, who dressed elegantly in different costumes. She could easily draw her portrait if she was an artist. There were other figures, male and female, all behaving with propriety, moving about or sitting in a natural way. If she saw auy children they were always boys. In the early part of her hallucinatory period she saw a stout lady sitting with a large poke bonnet in her lap. Her own little boy went and sat apparently in the lady’s lap. On rising the visionary bonnet adhered to the real boy, and he carried it about with him. These visions have been present almost daily from the beginning. She sees them dimly in the night, and they do not disappear at once on closing the eyes. She sees them most plainly with the right eye alone, more indistinctly with the left. They do not fade out grad- ually but disappear suddenly, or go out of the door naturally. She is not terrified but only annoyed by them. In a horse-car, for instance, site hesitates to take a vacant seat pointed out to her, because there seems to be some one in it. She sits down carefully and comes down harder than she expected. She is rather mortified to have to undress in the presence of a male visitant. She is not a believer in spirits. Hallucinations of hearing began in the summer of