He rouses up now and again, and then he is quite lucid and natural for, perhaps, an hour or so; but presently he becomes drowsy again and doses off, and remains asleep, or half asleep, for hours on end.

Do you know of any disease that takes people in that way ?" "No," I answered.

"The symptoms are not exactly like those of any disease that is known to me.

But they are much very like those of opium poisoning." "But, my dear sir," Mr.Weiss retorted impatiently, "since it is clearly impossible that it can be opium poisoning, it must be something else.
Now, what else can it be?
You were speaking of congestion of the brain." "Yes.

But the objection to that is the very complete recovery that seems to take place in the intervals." "I would not say very complete," said Mr.Weiss.