It seems to involve no more interference with the continuity of the normal physical and mental functions than does an afternoon's nap." "But the after-effects!" persisted Henry.

"Patients must surely feel that they have forgotten something, even if they do not know what it is.

They must feel that there is something gone out of their minds.

I should think this sensation would leave them in a painfully bewildered state." "There seems to be a feeling of slight confusion," said the doctor; "but it is not painful, not more pronounced, indeed, than that of persons who are trying to bring back a dream which they remember having had without being able to recall the first thing about what it was.

Of course, the patient subsequently finds shreds and fragments of ideas, as well as facts in his external relations, which, having been connected with the extirpated subject, are now unaccountable.