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CASE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS,
(BNIT»D FSIBS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIOHr.J
SYDNEY, 22nd November. A peculiar case at a Waverley hospital is puzzling the doctors. A young woman was admitted in a deep sleep, and woke 'after an unbroken slumber of a full week. All efforts to rouse her failed, but in' the meantime food was Tegularly administered. Her heart and pulse beat normally. ;. The case is supposedly an aftermath of an influenza attack in 1918.
Later. The case has been diagnosed as encephalitis lethargica.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 7
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83UNBROKEN SLUMBER Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 7
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