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PECULIAR HOSPITAL CASE. DOCTORS PUZZLED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received November 22, 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 22. 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, hut in the meantime food was legularly 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 letkargica.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 5
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