From Early Childhood I Had Been Subject To A Peculiar Malady. I Say
Malady For Want Of A Better And Truer Word, For My Condition Had Never
Been One Of Physical Or Mental Suffering. According To My Father'S
Opinion, An Attack Of Brain Fever Had Caused me, When Five Years Old, To
Lose My Memory For A Time--Not Indeed my Memory Entirely, But My Ability
To Recall The Events And The Mental Impressions Of A Recent Period. The
Physicians Had Agreed that The Trouble Would Pass Away, But It Had Been
Repeated more Than Once.