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STRANGE AMERICAN CASE. The case of a 61-year-old mother who grew younger at the rate of a year every few months until she died whimpering like an infant in a sanatorium, is revealed in a Virginia medical journal.
Upset by the death of her husband, the woman felt she must become more compaionable to her children. She dressed, acted, and talked like them, and adopted their friends. Unable to combat this tendency, the woman eventually entered the sanatorium dressed as a little girl. She talked childishly, craved attention, and liked to play with toys. Within a few months, she lay in bed moving her hands and feet aimlessly, crying like a baby and calling “Mamma.” The case described is vouched for by a noted surgeon, Dr. B. R. Tucker.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 29 March 1937, Page 12
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