SIX MONTHS’ SLEEP
Doetors and scientists have joined forces in an attempt to awaken Patricia Maguire, 27, who has been asleep for six months at her home in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. Miss Maguire’s case has baffled the doctors, who have diagnosed her illness as a form of sleeping sickness, but its duration is unprecedented. A psycho-analyst declares that certain circumstances surrounding Hie case suggest a mental rather than a physical basis for the prolonged sieep.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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77SIX MONTHS’ SLEEP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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