October 25th

After a spasm, becomes speechless.

October 26th

One spasm lasting one hour; still speechless.

27th

Sleeps all day, but occasionally screams as from pain. Rouses in evening and personates different people.

28th, 29th, 30th

Same.

31st

Right hand writes, "On November 21st at five o'clock precisely she will swallow water; will swallow nothing but liquid until December 1st, when she will swallow a piece of cracker the size of a wafer".

November 1st To 10th

More or less spasms daily. Reason gradually returns. Much depressed in spirits, 11th Strings beads; makes figured bead basket and lamp mats; works only with the left hand; every bead in its exact place; works with her eyes closed, and the same in the evening without light as in the daytime.

November 12th

Fell from bed to lounge in a spasm.

From eleven to twelve at night sits up apparently asleep and writes with her paper against the wall; after she awakes seems to be unconscious of what she has written.

13th

Spasms as usual. In the evening, while sleeping, personates "Aunt Chloe"; writes for flour, mixes and makes some biscuits; pares an apple and makes a pie; uses both hands when asleep, when awake has no power to move the right.

November 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

Diary about the same.

20th And 2tst

Delirious and spasms. To-day, November 21st, is the day she is to swallow, at five o'clock p.m., water. A quarter before five I secretly took the striking weight from the clock standing in the entry; took two tumblers of water and put a drop of medicine into one; at three minutes before five offered her each glass successively; rejected both. At five o'clock a gurgling sound was heard in her throat. She motioned for the water; passed the tumbler in which I had secretly put a drop of medicine; rejected it; passed the other; took a mouthful, and with great effort swallowed a part of it, some of it running out of her mouth. The deglutition was performed like one attempting it with the mouth wide open.

January 1st, 1861

From November 20th up to this time, raving delirium; pulls her hair nearly all out from the top of her head. If she can get a pin, plunges it into whoever comes near her. Tears her clothes sadly. Swallows the bit of cracker December 1st, as predicted. The right hand protects fur against the left as much as possible. She now becomes more rational; talks again; first loud words uttered since November 6th. Calls for a book; reads with it upside down.

January 4th

Becomes blind. From this time to February 1st, constant delirium; frequent spasms.

February 1st To Nth

No particular change. Swallows water when in the magnetic sleep, and personates sundry persons; personates a Quaker; speaks loud and rapidly; gives an amusing lecture. When the magnetism passes off, remembers nothing of the past; can hardly speak in whispers, and is much prostrated.

February 11th

Takes and swallows a little nourishment - a few tea-spoonfuls of whips, blanc-mange, etc. More or less spasms nearly every day. Under the influence of magnetism writes poetry; personates different persons, mostly those who have long since passed away. Whenever in the magnetic state, whatever she does or says is not remembered when she comes out of it. Commences a series of drawings with her right (paralysed) hand, "Old Stump." Also writes poetry with it. Whatever "Stump" writes or draws, or does, she appears to take no interest in; says it is none of hers, and that she wants nothing to do with "Stump" or "Stump's." I have sat by her bed and engaged her in conversation, and drawn her attention in various ways, while the writing and drawing has been uninterrupted. She had never exhibited any taste for or taken any lessons in drawing.

March

During this month she complains much of pain in her head, in back of head chiefly, in nape and dorsal vertebrae, which she now calls her right arm. I will here remark further about these drawings. She became blind, 4th January; is still blind; sees as well with eyes closed as open; keeps them closed much of the time. Reads and draws with them closed. Draws in the dark as well as in the light; is clairvoyant. She writes several pieces of poetry, chiefly with the right hand, and as often in twilight and evening before gas is lighted, while it is dark. The handwriting differs greatly in different pieces. The spasms do not differ, either in form or frequency, from last month. The only remedy that has appeared to afford any relief is animal magnetism. The galvanic current has been tried without any success.

April 9th

Becomes deaf; great pain in head; is conscious of her suffering most of the time. Commences bead work; makes three bead baskets; does it all with her left hand; threads her needle, strings her beads, makes her baskets; works alike by daylight, gaslight, twilight, and in the dark. I have sat by her in the evening and witnessed her work. I lowered the gas to almost total darkness, and asked her to thread her needle and proceed with her work, which she did at once, not seeming to notice that the room was darkened. She selected a small needle from her needlebook, stuck it perpendicularly into a cushion lying by her, bit off the end of the thread, rolled it between her thumb and finger and passed it through the needle's eye as easily and readily as I would have passed it through a finger ring, and proceeded at once to string her beads; eyes closed.

May 15th

Delirious, imagining herself Queen Anne....

May 19th

Three spasms in the a.m.; at 2 p.m. a fourth. Her head is drawn downward and rests upon her knees; but suddenly her body elevates and she balances upon her head; remains in this position a few moments, falls over upon her right side; her body forms an arch while she rests upon the right side of her right foot and upon her right hand, and remains in this position half-an-hour. The spasm passes off; she sinks down prostrate, still delirious; seizes a pencil and paper with her right hand and writes, "Give an injection of Tinct. of Aconite and warm water." Gave it; slept after it several hours.