102 DAYS' SLUMBER.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 73, 27 March 1920, Page 19

102 DAYS' SLUMBER.

SLEEPING SICKNESS VICTIM WAKENED BY MUSIC. Having slept 102 days and nights, Mrs. Dora ilun-tz, 20, a resident of New York, was wakened by the music ot a violin, says the "Daily Mail." She is suffering j from the disease .known as encephalitis lethargica la form of sleeping sickness;. . and except for a few brief intervals of a few minutes she has been plunged in a deep sleep, from which nothing could | apparenlly waken ber. ' All the resources of medical science | we.-c employed in vain, till as a last effort j it was decided to try tbe effect of mu.-ie iv rousing tiiv dormant nerve centres, as tbe woman* had been an enthusiastic con- . cert-goer. A young v iolluis-t named Huff- j man was engaged u> play by tbe bedside i cvf tbe sick woman. After playing a Hun- , garlan rhapsody without effect, tbe musl- I clan changed to Schubert's "Serenade." ] After a few minutes the patient opened her j eyes, and nodded ber head, and after j nearly au hocr of the music tbe womaD I was fnliy awake. | The doctors stat» that there are no signs , of her relapsing into «ium-bor, and that ns soon as she regains strength she will be able to leave the hospital. She wa< attacked by <he strange sleeping malady 'a few days after she apparently made a complete recovery from influenza. .