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                                      The Neurology of Alice in Wonderland
                                                                                     T.J. MURRAY

   SUMMARY: Charles Dodgson, better                        On July 4, 1862 an unusual picnic                                    loving, warm person who showered a
   known as Lewis Carroll, author of the                took place. The Reverend Charles                                        great deal of affection on young
  famous Alice stories, developed migraine Dodgson, a thirty-year-old don at Ox-                                                Charles.
   and associated visual symptoms late in life. ford, took the three Liddell children,                                              Alice Liddell's son, Captain Har-
   There has been considerable speculation Ina, Alice, and Edith, for a row on the                                              greaves, described Dodgson in the New
   that the bizarre phenomena and weird                 Isis River towards Godstow. As                                          York Times as:
   visual imaginery in Alice stories was direct-
   ly related to the author's migraine.                 Dodgson was well known among                                                "this shy young man, rather tall,
       This paper reviews several aspects of the children for his spontaneous and amus-                                             so straight he leaned over
   character and health of Lewis Carroll in- ing stories, he began a narration.                                                     backwards with one shoulder
   cluding his shy, introspective personality, Robinson Duckworth, a second cha-                                                    higher than the other; thin and
   his stuttering and his attraction to young perone, later said that the story of Alice                                            pale, with dark wavy hair that
   girls. It is concluded that there is no con- was composed as they rowed along for                                                wanted cutting; rather good-
   nection between the visual symptoms of               the benefit of little ten year old Alice                                    looking, despite incongruities of
   migraine and the phenomena described in Liddell. At the end of the day Alice                                                     form movement - the young man
   the Alice stories which were written over 25 said "Oh Mr. Dodgson, I wish that you
                                                                                                                                    with the 'two profiles', the
  years before the author developed migraine would write out Alice's adventures for
   in his mid-fifties.                                                                                                              crooked smile, the trembling up-
                                                        me!" The next day Dodgson made an                                           per lip, the housemaid's knee and
   RESUME: Charles Dodgson, mieux connu                 outline and from then on continued to                                       jerky gait, the stammer, the high-
   sous le nom de Lewis Carroll et auteur               compose   and illustrate the tale "Alice's                                  pitched voice, the low precise
   d'Alice au pays des merveilles, developpa Adventures in Wonderland". He com-                                                     speech, the one deaf ear, but also
   dans la cinquantaine des maux de tete du pleted an unillustrated version in 1863                                                 with the blue eyes that held yours,
   genre migraine et des symptomes visuels and a beautifully handwritten, il-                                                        and the change from a warm
   relatifs a ses migraines. On a souvent as- lustrated copy for Alice as an early                                                   kindly glance to a suppressed
   socie les bizarreries et les fantasmes des Christmas present in November, 1864.
   contes d'Alice aux migraines de I'auteur.                                                                                        twinkle, while the large white
                                                        When later published, the Alice stories                                      hands gripped yours with unex-
       Cette anamnese fournit des renseigne- became some of the most popular and
   ments sur I'individualite et la sante de most translated writings in the English                                                  pected strength - it was to surprise
   Lewis Carroll, y compris sur sa timidite,                                                                                         a good many persons, including
   son caractere introverti, son begaiement et language. Published under the pseu-                                                   himself
   son attrait envers lesfillettes. On en a done donym Lewis Carroll, the stories made                                               (Hargreaves, 1945).
   conclu qu'il n'y a aucun rapport entre les their shy author famous, as well known                                                 He had a marked stutter and stam-
   symptomes visuels relatifs a ses migraines today as in Victorian times.                                                       mer that caused trembling of his upper
   et le phenomene decrit dans les contes                                                                                        lip. He had great difficulty giving
   d'Alice ecrits 25 ans avant que I'auteur,
   alors cinquantenaire, developpa ses mi-                                                                                       sermons and seldom did so but when
   graines.                                             The Life and Health of Lewis Carroll                                     he did, they were composed in such a
                                                           Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was                                          way that none of the words which
                                                        born in 1832, and educated at Rugby                                      caused him to stammer would appear.
                                                        and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1861 he                                    In 1897, in the last year of his life, he
                                                        decided to become a minister and took                                    gave a long sermon lasting three-
                                                        deacons' orders, but shyness and stut-                                   quarters of an hour and later wrote in
                                                        tering prevented him from seeking the                                    his diary "It has been the most for-
                                                        priesthood. He spent the rest of his life                                midable I've ever had to preach".
                                                        as a teacher of mathematics at Oxford,                                   Havelock Ellis (1945), in a study of
                                                        publishing some contributions on                                         British genius, wrote on thirteen emi-
                                                        mathematics, logic and games.                                            nent Englishmen, including Dodgson,
                                                           Dodgson's mother and father were                                      Charles Lamb and Kingsley, all of
       From the Department of Medicine (Neurology),     first cousins. He was the eldest son, the                                 whom stuttered, stating "There can be
    Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.         third of eleven children, most of whom                                    no doubt whatever as to the abnormal
       Reprint Requests to: Dr. TJ. Murray, Head, Divi-
    sion of Neurology, Dalhousie University, 5849
                                                        stuttered. His father was a stern                                        prevalence of stammering among
    University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7.   Archbishop but his mother was a very                                     British persons of ability". It is also of

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   interest that the dodo in Alice in                              sense, to Kenneth Burke's essay (1972)                         orientation and reversals are very often
   Wonderland represents Dodgson as the                            interpreting the acts and symbols large-                       symbolizations for the inability to find
   duck represents Duckworth. The dodo                             ly as excremental images, to Shane                             a definite direction in one's sexuality,
   refers to his stuttering way of starting                        Leslie's theory (1972) that they are                           and for a wavering between the hetero-
   to pronounce his own last name.                                 reflexions on contemporary ecclesi-                            and homosexual impulses. He feels that
      There is some argument as to                                 astical history. Florence Becker Len-                          Dodgson creates a world without real
   whether he was left-handed. In the Vic-                         non (1945) felt that the stories repre-                        love, that the absurd and cruel kings
   torian Age left-handedness was not en-                          sented unresolved Oedipal conflicts;                           and queens in the stories were parental
   tirely respectable but his sister, Louisa,                      Martin Grotjahn (1947) believed that                           symbols and that the disagreeable
   said he may possibly have been                                  Alice represented a symbolic equation                          animals around him represented his
   because she was. Certainly in his                               for the phallus and her adventures were                        many brothers and sisters.
   photographs he can be seen using a                              a return to the mother's womb. Geza                               It is interesting to ponder what this
   dominant right hand.                                            Roheim (1972) felt that the Alice story                        quiet, reserved, shy deacon of the
      Dodgson as a child was not very                              was clearly one of oral trauma, with                           church would have felt had he read
   healthy. His mother writes in her diary                         her manipulations of time, food, words                         these theories. Dodgson himself main-
   of a serious attack of whooping cough                           and realities being highly schizo-                             tained that his books meant nothing.
   and says that he got over this quite                            phrenic. Goldschmidt (1972) sug-                               However, he recognized that the words
   well. Towards the end of his Rugby                              gested the whole story could be ex-                            we use suggest more than we mean by
   days he suffered from mumps. Already                            plained by "the desire for complete                            them, so it is possible that the words of
   slightly deaf in the right ear, the mumps                       virility, conflicting with the desire for                      an author do represent more than even
   appeared to have caused further                                 abnormal satisfaction".                                        he planned.
   deterioration.                                                     The theories became "curiouser and                             Gardner (1960) in "The Annotated
      Dodgson was healthy most of his                              curiouser". Goldschmidt (1972), and                            Alice" suggested that there was
   adult life, fond of exercise and long                           Schilder (1938) were intrigued by the                          something preposterous about examin-
   walks. He recorded in his diary a walk                          tremendous amount of anxiety in Alice                          ing these books in academic detail.
   to Hastings, eighteen miles away, in                            stories, even though Alice herself                             Chesterton (1960) also voiced his
   five hours and twenty-five minutes,                             seemed aloof, and unperturbed by the                           "dreadful fear" that the Alice story had
   with an average pace of three and                               anxiety and frenzy around her.                                 already fallen into the heavy hands of
   three-quarter miles per hour. In the last                       Goldschmidt says that the anxiety is to                        scholars and was becoming "cold and
   year of his life he acquired a Whiteley                         a great extent related to eating or drink-                     monumental like a classical tune".
   exerciser to develop his arm muscles.                           ing and this represents oral aggres-                           Gardner (1960) excused himself by
   He liked to work hard and to retire                             siveness and cruelty. This seems an                            saying no joke was funny unless you
   physically fatigued.                                            over interpretation of the situation as                        see the point of it, and many of the
       He was prone to brief periods of                            Alice is controlled and calm in this                           most interesting things in Alice might
   mild depression, recurrent since his                            bizarre world of unexpected frenzy.                            only be understood if the times and
   teens. Even at a young age he was                               Heath (1974) noted that she took all                           habits of England and Oxford in the
   writing poetry of solitude and despair.                         the strangeness for granted, remained                           1800s were also understood. He also
   His poems at age 21, when he was still                          aloof, even snobbish, and did not see or                       says that the children of today find
   seriously affected by his mother's                              appreciate the author's jokes.                                 Alice difficult to understand, and that
   death, are quite sad and depressing.                               Phyllis Greenacre (1955), in a very                         the immortality of these books has con-
       He often stayed awake late at night                         detailed study suggested that Dodgson                          tinued, not because of children, but
   but did not complain of insomnia. He                            really hated his mother but loved his                          because adults, scientists and math-
   commented in one of his books on                                father, a seeming contradiction to                             ematicians in particular, seem to relish
   "sleepless nights", and when this was                           everything known about him. She                                the stories. Heath (1974), in fact, sug-
   later interpreted by others as insomnia                         believed that this explained the obvious                       gests children are the least likely to
   he corrected this in a later edition. He                        mother symbols, with the Queen of                               understand them.
   did invent a lot of games and math-                             Hearts and the Red Queen being                                    Fensch (1972) interpreted the stories
   ematical puzzles for people to do in                            heartless, cruel creatures while The                            as equivalent to the confused, sur-
   bed, intended in part to occupy the time                        King of Hearts and the White Knight                             realistic world of an LSD trip.
   and to keep one's mind on lofty and                             are father symbols and very pleasant,                           Although his essay, "Lewis Carroll -
   moral matters.                                                  kind fellows. She also argues that Alice                       The First Acid Head", is unconvincing,
                                                                   herself is the major mother symbol, and                        there was a song by Grace Slick (1972)
   Alice Analyzed                                                  feels that there is an unresolved and                          of the Jefferson Airplane called "White
      The analyses of the Alice stories                            reversed Oedipus complex involved.                              Rabbit" which again relates to the psy-
   have been numerous (Goldschmidt,                                   His pleasure in mirror writing and                           chodelic nature of Alice's adventures
    1972; Greenacre, 1955; Grofjahn,                               reversals has been related to his phy-                          and a suggestion that it is a drug ex-
    1947; Phillips, 1972; Schilder, 1938;                          sical asymmetry and perhaps his left-                           perience. She repeats "Go ask Alice"
   Taylor, 1952) and range from sugges-                            handedness. Goldschmidt adds the un-                           which has been adopted as the title of a
   tions that they are just playful non-                           usual suggestion that left and right dis-                      recent novel on teenage drug problems.

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   Migraine                                                          It is conceivable that the visual                         other items left at the time of his death,
     " 'I am very brave, usually.' He                            phenomena he experienced in his fifties                       there was a human skull and a skeleton
     went on in a low voice: 'Only to-                           and sixties were due to transient cerebral                    of a hand and foot. Although interested
     day I happen to have a head-                                ischemia. Visual phenomena of many                            in medical science he had definite ideas
     ache'."                                                     forms can occur with vertebrobasilar                          about animal research and published a
                        Tweedle Dum                              ischemia, and headache occurs with                            number of dissertations on the evils of
                                                                 both carotid and vertebrobasilar                              vivisection, indicating that he did not
                                                                 ischemia episodes. It is more likely                          accept the argument that animal ex-
       Dodgson's name often appears on
                                                                 however that the phenomena represent                          perimentation was justified to relieve
   lists of famous migraineurs. He
                                                                 an unusual late onset of migraine as                          human suffering.
   diagnosed his own migraine. It has
                                                                 described by Miller Fisher (1980). Late
   been suggested that the visual pheno-
                                                                 onset migraine can resemble transient                         Dodgson's Relationship with
   mena that he had with migraine may
                                                                 cerebral ischemic attacks. The                                Young Girls
   have been responsible for the fantastic
                                                                 neurological phenomena may be                                     Psychoanalysts have made much of
   visual imagery, alteration of body
                                                                 dramatic and prolonged with minimal                           his relationship with small girls. It is
   image, and other bizarre phenomena in
                                                                 or absent headache.                                           clear that this quiet, shy bachelor with
   the Alice stories.
                                                                     The suggestion that the visual                            a stern father and doting mother, had a
       The first reference to migraine comes                                                                                   life-long love for little girls, a disdain
                                                                 imagery in the Alice stories may have
   from the edited Dodgson diaries                                                                                             for small boys and an inability to relate
                                                                 been related to the author's migraine
   published by his nephew, S.D. Col-                                                                                          to adult women. Because he had a hob-
                                                                 has appealed to many neurologists.
   lingwood (1898). In 1888, at age fifty-                                                                                     by of photographing little girls in the
                                                                 Patients with migraine may perceive
   six, he had his first episode which he                                                                                      nude and was the author of strange
                                                                 distortions in the size or shape of ob-
   described in his diary.                                                                                                     books about bizarre and complex
                                                                 jects or, rarely, changes in their own
       "This morning on getting up, I ex-                        body image or in the perception of peo-                       creatures, he has been a frequent target
       perienced a curious optical effect -                      ple around them. Although this theory                         for psychoanalysts. Many papers com-
       of 'seeing fortifications' - discus-                      is interesting to contemplate as one                          ment on the relationship to his mother,
       sed in Dr. Lathan's book on                               reads the Alice stories, there is no con-                     to Alice and to other small girls. Taylor
       'bilious head-ache'. In this in-                           vincing evidence to support it. Dodg-                        (1952) makes two assumptions: that
       stance it affected the right eye on-                       son's initial migraine headache seems                        Dodgson was normal, although
       ly, at the outer edge and there was                       to have occurred about twenty-eight                           peculiarly retiring and secretive, and
       no head-ache."                                             years after he first wrote the stories,                      that his books had definite meanings,
   Six months later it occurred in the left                       and they appear to be just fanciful and                      and were not merely "nonsense".
   eye and a year later he had similar                                                                                         Taylor suspects there was a great dis-
                                                                 imaginative story telling.
   symptoms in association with an                                                                                             appointment in his life which has been
                                                                     Unfortunately, he seldom consulted                        eliminated from the diaries and
   episode of synovitis of the knee.                              a physician so we do not have any con-
   Altogether, about six episodes of                                                                                           writings. He feels that Dodgson was in
                                                                  firmation of his diagnosis. In 1852 he                       love with Alice and that the breakdown
   migraine-like phenomena were noted in                         did consult Edward Hamilton, an Edin-
   his diaries. Only vague references are                                                                                      in that relationship was the great disap-
                                                                  burgh Phrenologist, who read his head                        pointment of his life. Although there
   made to headache and the clearest                              bumps and gave an interesting report
   description is of recurrent visual ex-                                                                                      was a long list of little girls in his life,
                                                                  on the character of the client, although                     none ever replaced his first love, Alice
   periences.                                                    it did not bear on our question about                         Liddell. Mrs. Liddell seemed to sense
       It would be unusual for classical                          his headaches (Hamilton 1954). The                           that there was something wrong in this
   migraine or typical migraine of any                            report ends on an interesting note: "As                      relationship and began to discourage
   type to begin at age fifty-six. Dodgson                        a medical man you could excel. Do not                        Dodgson's attention to her daughters.
   wrote a detailed diary and there are ac-                       stress the brain too much at time (sic)                      Later she seemed to regard him with
   curate notes and interviews with people                        because it is not firmly knit yet. Upon                      some distaste, and burned all his early
   who knew him throughout his life, so it                        the whole a good head."                                      letters to Alice. There is a cryptic
   is likely that earlier episodes would                             The phrenologist was accurate in                          reference in Dodgson's diary on Oc-
   have been recorded had they occurred.                          noting Dodgson's strong love for                             tober 28, 1862 to his being out of Mrs.
   Unfortunately, he does not describe the                        children, his refinement, and his excel-                     Liddell's good graces "ever since Lord
   characteristics of his headaches and the                      lent logical mind. It has also been sug-                      Newry's business". The explanation
   suspicion of migraine has always been                          gested that he probably could have                           behind Lord Newry's business remains
    based on the occurrence of visual for-                        been a good physician and he certainly                       a mystery to this day.
   tification scintillations. Dodgson was                         had a great interest in medicine, keep-
    well read in medical matters and he                           ing a large library of books on                                 Some may question whether Dodg-
   decided that the description of his                            medicine, pathology, anatomy and                              son loved Alice, which was likely, and
    visual phenomena fitted the pattern of                        other aspects of science. Along with                          whether he contemplated marriage with
   "bilious headache", or migraine out-                           telescopes, a microscope, mathematical                        her, which was unlikely. Dodgson was
    lined in Dr. Latham's book.                                   instruments, geometrical solids and                           twenty years older than Alice and she

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  later married a gentleman by the name                           be seventeen. He wrote a mock                                  Alice, assisted in this effort. At the
  of Hargreaves. Dodgson himself later                            apology to the mother but she replied                          Lewis Carroll Centenary in London in
  stated that he always remembered                                sternly, "We shall see that it does not                         1932 it was decided to initiate a more
  Alice as a child. He later wrote letters                        recur". It appears that Alice herself                          substantial memorial in the form of an
  to Alice but always addressed them to                           was not always happy with Carroll's                            entire children's ward at St. Mary's
  "Dear Mrs. Hargreaves".                                         attention and there was some an-                               Hospital, Paddington. This was
     Isa Bowman, a little girl who played                         tagonism towards him by the mother                             launched by a letter to the Times in
  Alice on stage, was one of Dodgson's                            and sisters in the Liddell family.                             March 1932 signed by Ramsey Mac-
  most favorite child-friends. One after-                            He lost all fondness for these young                        Donald, Stanley Baldwin, J.M. Barry,
  noon while walking hand-in-hand with                            women when they reached woman-                                 Alice Hargreaves, Walter De Le Mare,
  her in Christ Church Meadows he ex-                             hood. He wrote, "About nine out of                             A.A. Milne and many others. The suc-
  plained how rivers flow downhill to the                         ten, I think, of my child-friendships get                      cess of this appeal was partly due to the
  sea. The essence of the relationship                            shipwrecked at the critical point 'where                       enthusiasm of Professor B.J. Col-
  seemed to be his ease and comfort with                          the stream and river meet', and the                            lingwood, Professor of Physiology at
  a small child, for the relaxed and happy                        child-friends once so affectionate,                            St. Mary's Medical School, and a
  interval was suddenly broken with the                           become uninteresting acquaintances,                            nephew of Dodgson. In Dodgson's Will
  appearance of another university don.                           whom I have no wish to set eyes on                             he stated "Now that my nephew,
  Carroll's ease in conversation and his                          again."                                                        Bertrum Collingwood, is studying for
  relaxed manner disappeared and he                                                                                              the medical profession, I should like
  was transformed back to the awkward,                           Later Life and Death                                            him to have what he likes of the books
  shy, stuttering Reverend Charles                                   In 1889 and 1890 he had a series of                         on the subjects of anatomy, phy-
  Ludwidge Dodgson. For the remainder                             medical problems including a boil, syn-                        siology, pathology and kindred sub-
  of the walk the little girl said he                             ovitis in one knee, and later the other,                       jects."
  "became difficult to understand and                             ague, cystitis and lumbago, raising a
  talked in a nervous and pre-occupied                            question about Reiter's syndrome.                              Conclusion
  manner".                                                           In 1891 he fell unconscious after                              The self-diagnosed migraine of
     He thought the naked bodies of little                        morning chapel and awoke an hour                               Charles Dodgson had it's onset at age
  girls, unlike those of little boys, to be                       later on the floor of the stalls, his nose                     56 and was characterized mainly by
  extremely beautiful. With their                                 bleeding. He reports, "It is thefirsttime                      visual symptoms. These visual symp-
  mother's permission, he often sketched                          I fainted away. I sent for Dr. Brooks. I                       toms were not the basis of the bizarre
  and photographed them in the nude. To                          had some headache afterwards, but felt                          happenings in The Alice stories, as is
  prevent future embarrassment to the                            very little the worse."                                         sometimes suggested, since they were
  girls, he requested that after his death                           He spent that Christmas at Christ                           written over twenty-five years before
  the pictures be destroyed or returned to                       Church and had further symptoms of                              his migraine began.
  the children or their parents. None of                         joint pains and episodic visual distur-
  these photographs have survived.                               bances. There are no more entries on
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