ccident。 He could recall instantaneously the population of countries and cities； and I remember that once； in the course of an accidental conversation； he mentioned the production of beetroot in a certain country for the last ten years； or the factory number of my watch that he had given me fifteen years before and had never since held in his hand。 He often said that the figures he carried in his head troubled him。 In this regard the symptom may be mentioned that he was not a good mathematician； but so exceptional a card player that nobody wanted to play with him。 He noticed every single card dealt and could immediately calculate what cards each player had； and was able to say at the beginning of the game how many points each must have。
＇1＇ Cf。 S。 Freud Psychopathologie des Alltagsleben。
Such various developments are numerous and of importance for us because we frequently are unwilling to believe the witness testifying in a certain field for the reason that his memory in another field had shown itself to be unreliable。 Schubert and Drobisch cite examples of this sort of thing； but the observations of moderns； like Charcot and Binet； concerning certain lightning calculators （Inaudi； Diamandi； etc。）； confirm the fact that the memory for figures is developed at the expense of other matters。 Linnptique。 Toulouse 1901