Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — A Bad Case. [ARTICLE]

A Bad Case.

“I know a man who f orgot his name and did not recall it for two years,’’ said a newspaper man, “but i ! this case the forgetting was associate with pathetic misfortune followed by . long period in which there was no memory. But the other day a friend of mine came into my office about 1 o’clock, spent half an hour in looking over the papers, and then said: ‘I can’t imagine what makes me feel so queer today. I don’t remember ever to have hail such symptoms as I have experienced within the last hour’ He stopped short in his explanation, and exclaimed: ‘By George, I forgot to cat my breakfast this morning.’ Ami hehad.This is the worst case I have known of forgetfulness in what we may call the ordinary walks of life. ”