THE TRANCE DISEASE.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7541, 3 May 1890, Page 6

THE TRANCE DISEASE.

A curious sequel to the Influenza W a Home paper of March 2lat) has appeal in the South of Kuropa. According to * correspondent in tto.ne, it is knowa bj bhe country people in tho North of Itwfi among whom ie nus mAα ics as "La Nona," or "the falling asleep disease. This novel malady wa» am noticed in Mantua immediately .alter I MM subsidence of tho straugj pUgue w*»cnu now sweeping arouad the globe, *»* victims to the aftermath of lnfluea«a. Itt into a death-liice trance, lasting *M« four days, out of which the pattens » described as waking in a stace ot exj«a™ exhaustion. Recovery U very alow, BMWB* up to the present no tatal easo is *°»"* to have occurred; but that it is«*»•*£ eileco of the epidemic scums a reaejKMMW hypothesis, since iv no iusfcaiico W» " seiz.d anyone who had not had ■ a w**™ attack ot iuttuenao, iv iho course ol w past winter. How :ar io deserves m title of a -new dwuiiso ,, remains w«» aeen. iTet to descrioe it. us nwrdy to the influenza Iμ not to nwca nearer a solution ot the pAiiioKM l * 1 * 1 ** blem; for tho ori-in and, ij» «»»"j respects, the exact; n.iwu-o of t»J inn , JIT epidemic are, tv the dtaniard « a * ttr * 5 7 still moot questions. Whether that au menb Iβ oi- ev«a cauuot be attinned with auycerta»ow»*" v no doubs; for years to come tUe eP ia f!«v: ol3gi4Gewill.be ho due to a syeciiie poison ia the atr, or whftb degree tho theory of, thl* PjJ beiug malaria from th.i iuuudatid »«"»«» China is justiiieu. At all numerous seqaHce, "Lα Nona" i» hee» remarkable, ciiough wmo of tQOODue»»»' sufficiently peculiar. . n A case of the new trance disease !«"£« as "Li Nona" is reported to have takt" place ut St. Leonard*, Hastings- *• uppers that a staying »6» hotel in Che western pan. of the boro "«": who had inllueuiai, weal to baa one ew» iug at the usual time. Soh coming oow« at the castumary hour the next m*™* his room was eucered, and hu wa* »an» to be fast asieep. AU eitorta to ffeWW" were fruitless, altaough three doc<.o« were called in an 1 nniatard pl*stew»*j plied to his fecc. He eventually came: oo» of the trance lace ac night in a state < W » treme exhaustion, a;«a-(adds an hnbP* paper) still liaa very woaic and ill.