Newport daily independent., 1902-12-30
EXTRAORDINARY SLIPPERS.
Sensational Cases of Protrncted sorn- noience in Various Parts of
 the World.

About three years ago quite a sensa- tion was caused among medical ex- 1 perts by the remarkable case of a girl | named Kramer, who lived in the vil- lage of Huelsweiler. This girl, who was 13 years of age, suddenly fell into deep sleep from which she could not be awakened, and she remained in this comatose condition for whole year, when she was removed to the lunatic asylum at Merzig, says London Tit Bits
 Nothing could be done for the child beyond carefully tending her, in the hope that she would waken naturally, which she actually did two months after her admission. During the time she was asleep her teeth were so firm ly clenched that her food had to be ad- ministered through the nose, and when she awoke her gums had completely oyergrown her teeth. She was detained in the asylum until her faculties had resumed their normal condition, and until her memory, which had com pletely gone, was gradually restored. When discharged a perfect cure had been effected.
 This case, which is probably one of the most remarkable of it's kind which has ever been recorded, is by no means without a parallel, as the following will show.
 Blanchet, a French physician, records the case of g. patient-a lady 24 years if age-who on three separate occa- sions slept for extraordinary periods of time. At the age of IS she slept for 40 days, at the age of 20 she again slept for 50 days, and the last recorded sleep extended for nearly year.
 On this occasion she was supplied with liquid nourishment, and during the time she remained in the comatose condition she was motionless and in- sensible, the pulse was low, and her breathing scarcely perceptible; but her complexion remained forid and healthy.
 Somewhat similar was the case of laboring man named Samuel Clinton. who resided at Timsbury, near Bath. At the age of g he fell Into a profound sleep, in which he continued for a month in spite of all the efforts that were made to rouse him from his lethargic slumber. When at length he wakened up he at once went about his work as if nothing unusual had hap pened.
 Two years later he slept for F weeks and during that time he occasionally without waking, partook of the food which was constantly kept beside him. Again he awoke naturally, and on re- suming work was somewhat surprised to find it was harvest time. The period that had elapsed between the sowing and reaping had been to him blank.
 A year later, after complaining of Bhivering and coldness in his back, he again fell into a sleep which lasted fully five months. Many and various were the means adopted for the pur- pose of rousing him, but all attempts proved fruitless. Even the infiiction of pain, which under ordinary circum- stances would have been excruciating, failed to make the slightest impression upon him.
 William FoXley who was at one time potmalxer for the mint in the tower of London, once slept for 14 days and IS nights, and then awolle under the inn pression that he had slept no longer than usual. The most eminent physi- clans of the time were quite unable to account for his extraordinary sleep.