exquisitely  executed  artistic  photographic  representa-
tions. These  phenomena  have  occurred  not  exclusively
during  the  act  of  drowning,  and  at  the  moment  of  death,
hut  in  analogous  conditions  of  morbidly  asphyxiated  and
affected  brain.*

A  gentleman,  during  an  attack  of  acute  mental  de-
pression, hung  himself.  A  short  period  only  elapsed
before  he  was  cut  down.  He  was  subsequently  brought
to  me  for  advice,  and  placed  for  a  time  under  my  medical
supervision.  He  ultimately  recovered.  He  often  re-
lated to  me  the  strange  mental  visions  that  floated  before
his  mind  during  the  few  minutes  or  (in  all  probability)
SECONDS,  he  continued  suspended,  and  temporarily  de-
prived of  consciousness.  They  were  of  the  most  pleasing
character.  The  scenes  of  his  early  life  were,  in  their
minutest  particular,  revived.  He  was  taken  to  the
cottage  in  which  he  was  born,  interchanged  tokens  of
affection  with  his  beloved  parents,  gambolled  once  more
with  the  companions  of  his  childhood  on  the  village
green,  and  again,

"  Whispered  the  lover's  tale,
Beneath  the  milk-white  thorn,  that  scents  the  evening  gale."

Incidents  connected  with  the  school  in  which  he  re-
ceived his  early  instruction  were  reproduced  to  his  mind.
