But tell me, would this treatment produce a similar improvement if the symptoms were due to disease ?" "No," I answered, "it certainly would not." "Then that seems to settle it.

But it is a most mysterious affair.

Can you suggest any way in which he can have concealed a store of the drug ?" I stood up and looked him straight in the face; it was the first chance I had had of inspecting him by any but the feeblest light, and I looked at him very attentively.

Now, it is a curious fact--though one that most persons must have observed--that there sometimes occurs a considerable interval between the reception of a visual impression and its complete transfer to the consciousness.

A thing may be seen, as it were, unconsciously, and the impression consigned, apparently, to instant oblivion; and yet the picture may be subsequently revived by memory with such completeness that its details can be studied as though the object were still actually visible.
Something of this kind must have happened to me now.