SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 13

SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

STRANGE TRANCE CASE. PREMOMTnON OF MISFORTUNE. Doctors are baffled by the strange ease of Miss Doris Hinfcon, of Cbilwell, Nottinghamshire, _ who for months has remained stiff and white, as if dead, and who scarcely moves an eye-lid when spoken to. .. . ~ .. ._ _ The girl was taken suddenly ill in October last while listening in at the radio. She was with her brother at the time and suddenly put the head-phones aside and lay down. From that day to this she has remained in a kind of trance. The Duchess of Portland has taken an interest in the case, and at her instigation a specialist from London was summoned. He offered but little hope, and the girl eventually received treatment at Nottingham General Hospital. Miss Hinton was removed to her home after four months. She has to be fed artificially, and when anyone approaches her bedside she simply shudders and closes her eyes. She was of a very religious turn of mind, and had a strange premonition that something terrible was about to take place a week before she became ill. She said to her mother: "I am sure there is something terrible going to happen and that I am the cause of it." Trances of the kind have been known in England before, mostly among women.