The patient is now gentle, respectful, and modest, can speak clearly, but he only speaks when he is spoken to.

If he is asked his views on religion and politics, he prefers to leave such matters to wiser heads than his own.

It might seem that morally and mentally the patient's cure had been complete.
"But now ask what he thinks of Rochefort; how he liked his regiment of marines.

He will blankly answer that he knows nothing of Rochefort, and was never a soldier in his life.

'Where are you then, and what is the date of to-day ?' 'I am at Bicetre; it is January 2nd, 1884, and I hope to see M.Voisin, as I did yesterday.' "It is found, in fact, that he has now the memory of two short periods of life (different from those which he remembers when his right side is paralysed), periods during which, so far as now can be ascertained, his character was of this same decorous type, and his paralysis was on his left side.
"These two conditions are what are called his first and his second, out of a series of six or more through which he can be made to pass.