WOMAN FALLS 80FT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 10

WOMAN FALLS 80FT.

111 DAYS UNCONSCIOUS. GAP LEFT IX MEMORY. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LQXDOX, .December. 18. . Medical history was made this week when a young mother, after lying unconscious for ill days in Hospital, London, spoke a few simple sentences. She sat up in bed to greet her husband and friends and ate the light diet offlgH^njgggs|sps | After /weeks oKdespair, Mrs. Ivy Ida Smith, isljiii. 22-y«ar-oid ." of Xrtrth? Harrnv, suddenly fesmonded; to Daring the" 111 days that had passed since she fell 80ft in Oxford Street, scores of experts had given their help in this case—one of the strangest in the annalsgofaßritish hospitals. ; : iXerve specialists gavt' injections, sur-i gions treated the wounds on her head aid other parts of-her-body; diet experts devised the best possible food products tb maintain her strength, lung specialists did all in their power to prevent her contracting pneumonia. & ■ i &

«"It was a real triumphfforr r medicine when Mrs. Smith murmured her first wprds ,i-.',an..<ttfi|(aal. the ; >»Middleaex Hospital said; "Mrs. Smith," said, the offic i a c the sense that she is aule to say simple sentences, to _~recoghiss "visitors ..and to take ordinal invalid diet. •' -Bat' she Las no recollection of what brought her to hospital. Xo attempt lias been made -yet to bridge the gap in her memory."