Patient H.M: a story of memory, madness and family secrets

Origins

The fall

Crumpled lead and rippled copper

Dream jobs

The bridge

Arline

Madness

Pomander walk

Water, fire, electricity

Melius anceps remedium quam nullum

the broken

Room 2200

Sunset Hill

Experiment successful, but the patient died

Unlimited access

Ecphory

The vacuum and the ice pick

The hunt

It was brought into the sea

Proust on the operating table

Fortunate misfortunes

Henry Gustave Molaison (1926-1953)

Discovery

Where angels fear to tread

Monkeys and men

Interpreting the stars

The son-of-a-bitch center

The MIT research project known as the amnesic patient H.M.

Secret wars

Dewey defeats Truman

A sweet, intractable man

It is necessary to go to Niagara to see Niagara Falls

Patient H.M. (1953-2008)

The smell of bone dust

Every day is alone in itself

Postmortem.