And at Rochefort and La Rochelle, by great good fortune, he fell into the hands of three physicians--Professors Bourru and Burot, and Dr.Mabille--able and willing to continue and extend the observations which Dr.Camuset at Bonneval, and Dr.Jules Voisin at Bicetre, had already made on this most precious of _mauvais sujets_ at earlier points in his chequered career.
"He is now no longer at Rochefort, and Dr.Burot informs me that his health has much improved, and that his peculiarities have in great part disappeared.

I must, however, for clearness sake, use the present tense in briefly describing his condition at the time when the long series of experiments were made.
"The state into which he has gravitated is a very unpleasing one.

There is paralysis and insensibility of the right side, and, as is often the case in right hemiplegia, the speech is indistinct and difficult.
Nevertheless he is constantly haranguing any one who will listen to him, abusing his physicians, or preaching--with a monkey-like impudence rather than with reasoned clearness--radicalism in politics and atheism in religion.

He makes bad jokes, and if any one pleases him he endeavours to caress him.

He remembers recent events during his residence at Rochefort asylum, but only two scraps of his life before that date, namely, his vicious period at Bonneval and a part of his stay at Bicetre.
"Except this strange fragmentary memory, there is nothing very unusual in this condition, and in many asylums no experiments on it would have been attempted.