20th To 23rd

Daily spasms, but not so severe.

24th

Raving delirium; imagines herself a dog; barks and growls.

26th

Awakes delirious. At 5.30 a.m. has a spasm lasting until 8 o'clock. All the muscles of the body and limbs are rigid, except those of right arm. With this hand, but partially rigid, she takes a pencil and paper and writes, "After some time in June Anna will be able to swallow for the remainder of the summer".

31st

Imagines herself a dog; barks, growls, howls; sets dogs in the street to barking. Seems pleased and imitates them; laps water; sometimes draws back from it; growls and gnashes her teeth; froths at the mouth; attempts to bite; acts as if she had hydrophobia.

June 1st And 2nd

Hydrophobia and dog personation continued. Spasms in which the legs being drawn under her, her head is drawn down upon her knees, somewhat resembling a ball; she rolls over and over from left to right and from right to left, to which I give the name " Rolling spasms " or Anaku-lisma (revolving).

11th

Gave Tinct. Bell, in warm water. This prescription is written by her right hand while she is delirious. Her finger and toe nails become very dark purple. These spasms with delirium continue nearly every day through the month. Bell, injections appear to mitigate, and magnetism enables her to sleep several hours during the nights.

August

Head drawn over upon right shoulder; left hand closed so that it cannot be forced open. Cannot use either hand while awake, although she uses her right hand readily while asleep.

October

Spasms vary; body jerks from side to side; motion like the pendulum of a clock, but rapid; continues several minutes, sometimes making 1000 vibrations, after which she faints. Draws pictures; sews; does bead work, chiefly with her right hand, her left being still closed, although she can use her thumb, and helps with that. This seems to be done in a clairvoyant state, as light and darkness are the same to her, and the work goes on in both alike.

November

Ruptured a blood-vessel in the lungs; hemorrhage; speaks only in whispers.

December

Hemorrhage continues; still clairvoyant; draws; sews; bead work with left hand only when awake, with both when asleep.

January 1862

Nine weeks since she has spoken aloud, twenty-two since she has swallowed.

January 27th

Sight restored. Obliged to have the room darkened because the light is painful. Eighteen months' erratic vision. During these months she had read with her eyes closed and her book upside down. Thinks she sees through her forehead and top of her head. Seldom sleeps without magnetism.

June 7th

Recovered her voice; can speak loud....

Septetnber 10th

Great pain in head; delirious and beats her head against the wall.

September 20th

Sitting on the floor; raving; imagines herself a dog; growls, barks, and laps water. Has not slept; eyes crossed. Put her on bed; tears clothing. Magnetised her; slept several hours.

[ When her delirium was at its height, as well as at all other times, her right hand is rational, asking and answering questions in writing; giving directions; trying to prevent her tearing her clothes; when she pulls out her hair seizes and holds her left hand. When she is asleep, carries on conversation the same; writes poetry; never sleeps; acts the part of a nurse as far as it can; pulls the bed-clothes over the patient, if it can reach them, when uncovered; raps on the headboard to awaken her mother (who always sleeps in the room) if anything occurs, as spasms, &c]

January 1863

At night and during her sleep "Stump" writes letters, some of them very amusing; writes poetry; some pictures original. Writes "Hasty Pudding," by Barlow, in several cantos, which she had never read; all correctly written, but queerly arranged, as, e.g., one line belonging in one canto, would be transposed with a line in another canto. She has no knowledge of Latin or French, yet " Stump " produces the following rhyme of Latin and English.1

" Stump " writes both asleep and awake, and the writing goes on while she is occupied with her left hand in other matters. Ask her what she is writing, she replies, "I am not writing; that is ' Stump' writing. I don't know what he is writing. I don't trouble myself with ' Stump's' doings." Reads with her book upside down and sometimes when covered with the sheet. "Stump " produces two bills of fare in French.... Cannot sleep without being magnetised fifteen or twenty minutes at night, and then usually sleeps twelve to fourteen hours.

During the last two and a half years I have been obliged to be absent three or four times for a week or more, and although she has been attended and magnetised by either my friend Dr. C, or Dr. S. - who both have the power of magnetising - she has lost sleep and become raving crazy, tearing her hair, pounding her head; giving herself the name " Queen Victoria," "Queen Anne," Mary, etc, and calling her mother "Queen of Sheba," "Bloody Mary," etc.; myself "Dr. Kane," the "Old Giant," "God Almighty," and so on.... After going into the magnetic sleep at night she is very patient, pleasant, modest. Is pleased to see friends; converses pleasantly and rationally upon all subjects but one; upon this she is monomaniac. Her right hand and arm is not hers. Attempt to reason with her and she holds up her left arm and says, "This is my left arm. I see and feel my right arm drawn behind me. You say this 'stump' is my right arm. Then I have three arms and hands." In this arm the nerves of sensation are paralysed, but the nerves of motion preserved. She has no will to move it. She has no knowledge of its motion. This arm appears to have a separate intelligence. When she sleeps it writes or converses by signs.

It never sleeps; watches over her when she sleeps; endeavours to prevent her from injuring herself or her clothing when she is raving. It seems to possess an independent life, and, to some extent, foreknowledge.

1 These were six doggerel verses of four lines each, each line beginning in Latin and ending in English, given in full in Dr. Barrows' report, but omitted here.