THE subject of the present sketch, a frank, open-hearted Englishman of some twenty-five years of age, was introduced to me late in January of the present year by his physician, Dr. H. J. Vary, of Rochester, to whom I am greatly indebted for much of my material. Prior to this meeting Dr. Vary had told me he had had under his care a Mr. Robbins, who, shortly after his marriage on Christmas Day of last year, had suddenly disappeared from home. No knowledge had been obtained of his whereabouts until his bride received a letter on January 19 from him, to the effect that he was at a hospital in Sayre, Pa. Dr. Vary went to Sayre, and after a long search found him at a hotel in a nearby village and brought him to Rochester. When I first saw him, a day or two later, I found Mr. Robbins in a state of slight excitement, associated with a decided confusion of mind. His face was flushed; his eyes suffused, he evidently being in a condition similar to the hypnotic state. This was so evident that it occurred to me I might solve his riddle by hypnotic suggestion. Of this, however, more anon. Although his memory of his recent adventures was somewhat hazy and his statements contradictory, yet he gave a connected and apparently lucid account of his past life. The story he told me then, however, differs very radically from the one given me recently,-since his full recovery from his mongrel existence. Other accounts in about three days. January 6: Patient went down town on business about I1 A.M., and did not return to dinner and was not seen until about 10 P.M., when he came home, saying he had been to Buffalo, but the trip had not been of any advantage to him, nor did he accomplish anything by going. January 8: Saw patient a moment and he said he felt " fine." Noticed he was nervous and showed a slight return of the motor aphasia.
