The herald., 1897-02-25
WORKING TO KEEP HER AWAKE
Mrs. Honroe RosenfeId Again In a Strange
Trance

Trance
Mrs. Eunice Rosenfeld, whose strange
cataleptic malady excited the medical
fraternity last March, is once more the
subject of scientific inquiry. She now
lies in the Long Island hospital in
Brooklyn, and is only kept awake by
constant attendance and the application
of devices conceived by the doctors, with
the object of keeping her mental forces
at work, go that she may not relapse into
the comatose condition peculiar to her
disease. Her case Is a profound mys-
terry and puzzled the physicians in the
New York hospital last spring for sew
eral weeks Mrs. Rosenfeld is the wife
of Monroe H. Rosenfeld, a musical
composer. She Is "a years old and lives
with her husband in Brooklyn.
A physical condition to which, no
doubt. is due her strange malady, is her
highly nervous temperament This pe-
culiar physicaE condition exhibits itself
most strongly in her scrupulously ex-
acting management Of household affairs
She has been unable to keep a servant
girl in the house for the reason that she
could not consider any of them cleanly
! enough. She imagines thsJ made the
house dirty instead of keeping it clean.
Few girls remained with her more than
half an hour.
Mr.. Rosenfeld left his wife Saturday
night January 80, to catch the midnight
train for Boston. Before leaving he
prepared a luncheon for his wife in the
dining room of their fiat. Che had been
feeling poorly for several days. Mr..
Rosenfeld was absent until the follow
ing Wednesday. He arrived home at
o'clock In the afternoon and was sur
prised to find his wife In the dining room.
She was seated In the easy chair in which
he had left her. The luncheon was on
the table as he had left it. His fire.
impression was that his wife was dead
He hurriedly called DR.. Moss, the fam
lily physician, who worked with Mrs.
Rosenfeld until late that night. when
she came out of the trance.
Her first words were: Those are four
days l won't have to answer to my Gre
ator for any sins committed" DIR. Moss
constantly attended her and although
she had several relapses between
Wednesday night and Thursday after
noon. they were not Of long duration.
DR.. Moss. when he was called to at
tend Mrs. Rosenfeld, found her limbs
rigid and the condition strongly resem-
bling rigor mortis. The limbs gradu-
ally became partially flexible, but loco
motion was attended with great diff
Guilty and. in fact, the victim had little
power in her limbs. Her speech was
Impaired This condition has prevailed
since the attack of last spring. Thurs
day afternoon Mrs. Rosenfeld was re-
moved to the Long Island college hos
pital. The nurses and physicians, who
are deeply interested in her case, keep
her constantly in conversation or inter-
ested in what is going on about her, so
as to keep her senses alive.
Mrs. Rosenfeld's strange disease first
attracted public attention last March.
She was for thlrty-six hours in a coma
tose state. and as last hope Of bringing
his wife back to health Mr. Rosenfeld
had her removed to New York hospital
She lay there for weeks, and was finally
discharged as incurable. Since that
time she has had twenty-one spells,
which lasted from two to five hours
New York Herald.