She passed entirely away from my observation, and I have never since been able to learn what became of her, though I heard once that she had died, how or when I do not know. I once saw her in one of those deep sleeps produced by hashisch, and noted that there seemed to be complete anæsthesia, deep snoring respiration, thirteen to the minute, dilated and _irregular_ pupils, purplish congestion of the face and conjunctivæ, and a spasmodic twitching of the _left_ eyelid that lasted all the time I was with her—two hours. She was possessed of some money, and was very highly educated. She claimed to be the widow of an English army surgeon. In the morning she rarely smoked all that was put in the pipe, and never enough to put her to sleep. Occasionally she added a little opium to the hemp. She was a mental and bodily wreck. Her gait was tottering, and sometimes she would be forced to go in a direction opposite to that in which she desired to move. She expressed no desire to be broken of her vice, saying often that if she wished it she could stop without any trouble. I regret exceedingly that her temper and many peculiarities would not permit my studying her case more closely. The urine examined was obtained by catheterization during the semi-cataleptic spell already spoken of. The mental effect of this drug has been variously described by different authors. Thus, Calkins[103] says:— “The _mental condition_ is an ideal existence, the most vivid, the most fascinating. Time and space both seem to have expanded by an enormous magnification; pigmies have swelled to giants, mountains have grown out of molehills, days have enlarged to years and ages. De Moria in wending his way one evening to the opera house, seemed to himself to have been three years in traversing the corridor. De Saulcy having once fallen into a state of insensibility following upon incoherent dreamings, fancied he had lived meanwhile a hundred years. Rapidity as well as intensity of thought is a noticeable phenomenon. De Lucca, after swallowing a dose of the paste, saw, as in a flitting panorama, the various events of his entire life, all proceeding in orderly succession, though he was powerless in the attempt to arrest and detain a single one of them for a more deliberate contemplation. Memory is sometimes very singularly modified nevertheless, there being perhaps a forgetfulness, not of the object, but of its name proper, or the series of events that transpired during the paroxysm may have passed away into a total oblivion.