New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-02

FROM THANKSGIVING TO YESTERDAY
MORNING.

,pp,prvTrY DIE TO NERVOUS PROsrRATlON
AND LACK OF SUFFICIENT NoURIsIIMENT.
The story was told in brief in yesterdays Tribune
- - .o,,r, Woman who had been unconscious since
,r,.r,,s,i,,ino evening when she fell Into deep
80, AZ the home Of a friend whom she was Visit
ing in Highbrdge. The strange coma INTO WIZ" 'n7
oir had fallen had puzzled her physicians LOT nearly
three DAYS and it was not until early Yesterday
morning that the patient recovered paruat coi-
seriousness. . 1870
A Tribune reporter called last evening al the nome
n Mics Alice Wiley No. La Sedgwick ave, High
bridge where Miss Jessie Seymour, the young
woman referred to- was taken III, anu al tne hoii1
Of her aunt Mrs Helfrisch, In Riverview Terrace
Norris Heights. which place Miss seymour was
removed during her deep slumber. Her mother said
that the girl had not been in good heath since she
vas overcome by heat In church three years ago.
and thar she has been subject to severe headaches
over since On Wednesday when she LETT her nome
AT No. SIG South-st. Elizabeth. y. j., to spend
THANKSGIVING with her friends, she was suHerihs
from headache
Soon after reaching Miss Wileys house on
wednesday evening Miss Seymour complained OF
dyOwsness and retired TO her after tea 1t was
with considerable difficulty that Miss Wiley and her
sister induced their guest 10 arise on the ioAo"ihs
morning and accompany them TO frend mousse
where brief call was made. Miss Seymour did not
take part in the dance which followed the Thanks
meal complained of feeling weary and said she
would go to her room.
On the following morning her friends became
alarmed by her strange sleep and sent at once for
Or. James A. Ferguson, OF Ogden-lve., Highbridge,
who first thought the patient was suHerinS from
cerebral meningitis.
Miss Seymour was not removed to the Fordham
Hospital, but was conveyed in one of the ambu-
lances of that institution TO her aunts home in
Morris Heights Saturday afternoon, following the
arrival Of her mother Several times on Saturday
the unconscious girl would open her eyes and move
her lips If attempting TO speak, bur the only per-
sons she recognized were Mrs Wiley and Alice
Wiley. whom she lad last seen before falling into
a of coma.
Mrs SEYMOUR was at her daughters bedside when
she regained partial consciousness early yesterday
morning. and says that the girl appeared as II sne
were coming out OF deep natural sleep one soon
recognized her mother ana began 10 tax 10 her;
nothing from the time she LEFT the table at Mss
Wneys until she woke up. She did not remember
aunts nome. As there had been 10 stiifenng OF
the neck. Or. Ferguson had abandoned the theory
gitis and now accounts for her unconscious con-
dltlon by saying that 1t was due to nervous prostra-
ton the result OF too great nervous ana nlehta
Miss Seymour has FOR long time been a member
Elizabeth. and has taught in the Sunday-schoo
T5ee work sr mother says that being girl o:
nervous temperament she was deeply affected ny
tie scenes OF poverty with which she came In con-
tact ana often upon returning home after her visits
OF mercy would give way 70 spells OF weeping Owl
the pable condition of the poor.
In the three years since Miss Seymour was over
come b. heat she has not taste6 meat and subssts
almost wholly on vegetables. and what she eats her
mother says is so little that she wonders how the
girl manages 10 live. To look at her no one would
think that she is such light eater. as she Is stou;
and apparently enjoys good health The doctor adj
her to take perfect in the future IN order
to tone down her nervous system. which has been
sheltered by her excessive zeal in mission work.
Miss Seymour getting along well could
be expected last evening, and she will be able 10 &c
home In a few days
DR.. William Scott. Of the Fordham Hospital, was
also in attendance upon Miss Seymour.