SEVEN YEARS AWAKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 11

SEVEN YEARS AWAKE.

Medical men. at Budapest are deeply interested in the remarkable case of a woman who has 'not slept for seven years. Fran Bertha Hejemes, who is married, and has a little girl of ten, began her long vigil one night, when a gipsy woman attempted to kidnap the child. Since then she has not been ablo to go to sleep; neither has sue had any inclination to do so. She is in excellent health, and has never had a day's illness, but as soon as she endeavours to lie down she is seized with a violent, nervous agitation, which compels her to' sit up again. The woman declares that she is quite content in her sleepless. state, as, with the whole 24 hours to herself, she is able to perform all her household duties as well as to do a good deal of reading. A curious fact is that since the. beginning of her insomnia she has developed a great taste and ability for study, and has learnt three languages. Fran Hejemes is now 38 years old, and it is because of late she lias been subjcct to irrepressible fits of yawning that she has at last consulted a medical man about her condition.