The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-03
EAT AND SLEEPY soLDIrRs.

Louisville, Ky.) Medical Ne,1S. has the
following in regard to narcolepsy: 1--WE
have encountered two cases 'narcolepSy, ,
the sleepy di>ease. One was a lieutenant
OF cavalry in the confederate army. Be-
fore the war he was dry goods merchant,
and since the war he has returned to his
store his narcolepsy dates from child
hood. He is a very feshy man, of
more than average nental st ength and he
father II several vigorous children When
selling goods or when in the midst of con-
versatlon e has often been own to fall
asleep. In a few seconds, or moments at most,
he would awake apparently unconscious
that he had slept.
"A confederate general of great intellect,
an enormously obese man, was the second
case. If talking W en- sleep came on these
gentlemen Won d, on waking, resume where
they had left off"
SLEPT TWO YEARS AND THEN DIED.
In February, 1882, Anthony Kram, a
Bavarian. was sent from one of the out
lying wards of Buffalo to the city aims
house. Anthony was rot iii in anv way in
particular, neither was be we'll. His head ,
he said. was g tirely too heavy for his DO lv,
and his neck being composed of glass. it
was clearly t. be seel that the hard locks
of manual labor were lik " to result dis
astrously. When the superinten ent had
NA''N-ANNe
causes OF evl te It poverty, AMI also noting
that the man was very humble in his de-
meanor, he entered him on the books as
Anthony Kram; pious crank; cluse due TO
religious excitement with SYMPTOMS of mar
colepsy." The last clause in the try was
evidently true, as the men who br ugh
him to the almsh use mad awakened him
from sleep which hal, according the
testimony of his neighbor. Taste twenty
ant n hri Ncp
hi within the range of the city's charity
shook Anthunys head quite violently,
whereupon he sat up stiffly on hrs pallet
with the remark: "You shou dn't do tnat
you might break my neck, it's glass" AT
the almshouSe he was ;veo ath, a
change Of clothes and furnis ed a suppe
which consisted of common fare of the in
Stitution. He went to sleep apparently
elated over his change f quarters, but
never awoke to the appreciation of his new
found bensfactions. This wa, as already
noted, i'll February, 1892. F,om thai time
until February, 1884, two y4ars almost ex-
actly to daY, % slept the sleep of the just,
never rousing in the slightest degree, even
when do'ed with milk and SOUP, which
were fed him regularly three times each
day. Death, which occurred on thu 734th
day, the physicians say, was due to exha 49,
ton supsrinduce1 by narcoleDsy. J hn
Gynmbef, a H ngarian, re=iding near
Turin. has sleep record Of 1853 days to a =
swer for, and Mary Sliffert of Ale town,
Pa, slept regularly twenty hours out of the
twenty-four for eighteen months preceding
Sept. -, 1885, after which she took her rest
like the other inhabitants Of that prosy old
town.
HERMAN Harness CASE.
All such cases as thoI e recorded in the
foregoing are recognized by scientists as
EHa .-Ee DIT
curious as they are, the whole lot, taken
collectively, would not balance the extra
ordinary case of Herman Harness of Utica,
Milan. Harness was born in Germany
fifty years ago, a II came t. this cpul5r ),
Just before the breaking out of tle late war.
For years, prior to an attack Of fever and
ague, he was porous farmer on the
Mis,is5ipqisb )tton in st. Clair county, lii
nois. 1t was in 1877 when the clills irst
came on, and for the next three years every
effort was made to break the Jag m GER
tain prominent doctor of st. l. )uis having
charge of the case Qlinine and Smiths
ionic were u3ed by the ION a ID bar ell; st II
Herman would shake every day or every
0 her day. The st. Louis NJ. D., seeing tn t
all medicines we're us less in such case
ivised a change of climate. an Harne,
removed from the nalaria-sa urate Il farm tc
St Charles, Winona county, MINI, in the
wei he'd $50 pounds, and was regar led
as one Of the stro lgest men in his neigh
bOrhood. At the time of his removal orth
he weighed but l28 pounds. During tht
dry summer of 1889 the exhilarating al on
the Minnesota prairie was thought to have
eradicated Re maSma from his system
buJ with the return of the chilly mon rs
his old disease returned, increase several
fold. He soon became moroye and drow y
a a T-Crxy
from which he did not wake u til the sum
mer of 1884, having slept CO ltinuously A
mo tnsi lie was very weak, but did not
complain of any bodily ailment and would
not believe that he had slept more than one
night until Informed by the minister, whom
he had known during his first SUI mer in
the north, that it was really 1884; that Gar
field had been elected and ASA Ssinated
thai Blaine and Cleveland we're then max
ing race for the presidency, a i Of which
was a world Of wonders to sleeping
Harness, as the neighbors called him. Dur
ing the latter half Of July and tle first ten
days OF August, 1884, his health seemed al
most perfect Barring a weakness which
would be expected in case where man
had not walked for four years, he ate nd
slept as regularly as any of his neighbors
The family were beginning to congratulate
themselves on the discontinuance OF their
woes when Mrs. Harm g fell violently ill.
Several weary nights and days Harnes ad-
ministe ed to the wants of the wife who
had watched over him during his four years,
slumber. At st tired nature yielded and
Harness fell asleep while making a cup Of
tea, dropped to the flo IT and was carried
and put t. bed. His sleep seemed natural
enough, except that it CONT ued days,
weeks and months, the month lie gthened
into years, still he slumbered TWEEN y-three
hours and fifty milutes out II every
twenty-four, waking about IL o'cl ok every
night for from three to ten minutes but
never more t an ten, when he is fed a little
soup or a soft-boiled egg. Wnen last ca q
from, in January, 1883, he was We v pew
ish his frame had su ken to almost a skele-
ton, not more than 81 or 20 pounds remain
ing # what once was the vigorous st. Clair
county farmer No doub ere this time he
has joined the silent MAORI y, victim OF
narcolepsy. the sleepy $ ase
Pretty Complim s1t to Mrs. Cleve-
land.
From the Nec York World.