On one occasion he travelled some enormous distance out of the body and returned like a falling meteor; imagining a dive to save his neck, he heard a click, told his wife at breakfast, stiffened through the day into excruciating pain, was taken for X-rays at Presbyterian Hospital in New York where the head bone specialist could find nothing, no traction room was available, the pain eased after three days, and the episode cost him about a hundred and twenty-five dollars.