Word: amnesia
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...When one curtain went up, the other sent down," stated Thomas h. West, Jr. '50 last night, unable to recall anything specific about his two week amnesia attack that led him as afar afield as Jacksonville, Florida...
Actual details of his Odyssey were completely blacked out by the amnesia. But a Railway Express Agency receipt for his large sea bag dated October 28, from Jacksonville, a registration slip from a Philadelphia lodging house on October 30, and a job application to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole marked what he thought were the limits north and south. Thus the Montreal resident who reported him there on October 29 was clearly mistaken...
...distinct kinds of amnesia, epileptic or hysterical, could harmonize with the data, according to Dr. Lennox. The duration of West's absence, however, points to the hysterical variety, he observed, which commonly lasts for over a week...
More unlikely, but still admissable, is epileptic amnesia. Seizures of this variety, declared Lennox, are more severe, but manifest themselves for only a few hours. It is much easier to recognize, because the patient is badly coordinated as if heavily intoxicated...
...clutched by epileptic amnesia," Lennox added, might well get into an accident. But if that happened to West, he would recover consciousness in full possession of his faculties, and the hospital would report his presence...