He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of certain texture; the odors of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror.
Il souffrait vivement d'une acuité morbide des sens; les aliments les plus simples étaient pour lui les seuls tolérables; il ne pouvait porter, en fait de vêtement, que certains tissus; toutes les odeurs de fleurs le suffoquaient; une lumière, même faible, lui torturait les yeux; et il n'y avait que quelques sons particuliers, c'est-à-dire ceux des instruments à cordes, qui ne lui inspirassent pas d'horreur.