A Mad Family.
A case which has probably few, if any, parivJlels ha; just occurred in Vienna. A whole family, consisting o! four persons, has. became simultaneously insane. The unfortunate victims are Alexander Sobransky, aged 66, ami his three daughters, aged 18, 22, and 24 respectively. They are all suffering from Grossemvahn (megalo mania, or great delusions). The malady manifested itself lately, when the Sobransky family found that the house in which they live, which they thought was their own property, belonged to someone else. They tried to eject the other inmates, and made all sorts of absurd arrangements. The poor g:r'- wilt only detained after a fierce «t r ., L -rrU. , u which ihey defended themselves with hatchets. The case has been hro ,_rht i.ndtr the notice o! Pr i - r KraTr 111-i:: >_r. the eminent pathologist at the Vienna University. It appears that a son of Sobransky, aged 26, was seized with a similar mania a year ago. and is still insane.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 75, 23 July 1896, Page 4
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164A Mad Family. Hastings Standard, Issue 75, 23 July 1896, Page 4
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