ABSTRACT
The memory of what Van Swietenhad experienced produced the same disgust and the same consequences. This class of morbid phenomena is always developed by virtue of the same physiological processes as those which regulate the manifestations of normal activity. Far from being phenomena of over-excitement of the memory, they are those of dislocation and clouding over. Persons thus affected, more or less completely lose the faculty of retaining certain memories; either through the destruction of certain circumscribed regions in the cortical substance, or through the progressive destruction of its elements. Cuvier, in his lectures, mentions the case of a man who had lost the memory of substantives, and who could form sentences very well, with the exception of names, which he left blank. Michea cites the case of a young butcher whom he observed in the Bicetre, and who, under the influence of an attack of mania, recited whole speeches from the Pltedre of Racine.
