The thesis that pathology of the organism is our best informant concerning the normal functions of the organism is generally accepted in medical science. Janet (1) applied it to the problem of memory when he wrote:''The psychologists in their descriptions admit of no other elementary phenomena of memory than conservation and reproduction. We think that they are wrong, and that disease decomposes and analyses memory better than psychology." (p. 102) 1 In this regard consider the fruitless experiments of Barnes (2) and Liljencrants (3), and those surveyed by Hunt (4), which attempted to investigate the memory functioning of psycho tics by methods of classical memory experimentation.