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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue V, 3 August 1895, Page 134

Lapse of Memory.—Some instances of peculiar lapse of memory, or, as he calls them, ‘ Curiosities of Thinking,’ are given by Professor M. Allen Starr, M.D. One case which came under his notice was that of a man who had lost the power of recognising the letters d, g, q, x, and y, and had. moreover, great difficulty in reading, having to spell out the words. He could write all the letters but the five just mentioned ; the numbers 6,7, and 8 were also lo>t to him. For a week after the ailment attacked him he was unable to recognise his familiar surroundings, and after coming from a walk did not know the house in which he lived.