What makes the case still more interesting is that, besides the two personalities which we all seem to possess, this patient had an arrested personality, which was only fourteen years old when the age of his body was over forty.

Here is the report, however, make of it what you will.
[2] 1891.
"Louis V.began life (in 1863) as the neglected child of a turbulent mother.

He was sent to a reformatory at ten years of age, and there showed himself, as he has always done when his organization had given him a chance, quiet, well-behaved, and obedient.

Then at fourteen years old he had a great fright from a viper--a fright which threw him off his balance, and started the series of psychical oscillations on which he has been tossed ever since.

At first the symptoms were only physical, epilepsy and hysterical paralysis of the legs; and at the asylum of Bonneval, whither he was next sent, he worked at tailoring steadily for a couple of months.