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These problems should be amenable to experimental investigation, and for this purpose the use of patients being treated with electric convulsion therapy seems to be specially suitable, and these have already been used to a limited extent for this purpose. I think one can assume that the electric shock paralyses all cerebral activity so that the clinical features of concussion are very closely reproduced. In conclusion, 1 fear I have wandered from the subject of our discussion, and do not feel I have done justice to it. I hope, however, to have said enough to make you feel that the traumatic disorders of remembering are worthy of consideration.

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