The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-07
SOME GOOD SLIPPERS.
Remarkable Instances of Long and
 unbroken Repose.

From London Tit-Bits.
 About three years ago quite a sensation was caused among medical experts by the remarkable case of a girl named Kramer, who lived in the village of IIuelsweiler. This girl who was 13 years of age. suddenly fell into a deep sleep from which she could not be awakened, and she remained in this comatose con- dition for a whole year, when she was removed to the lunatic asylum at Merzig.
 Nothing could be done for the child be- yond carefully attending her, in the hope that she would walen naturally, which she actually did two months after her admission. During the time she was asleep her teeth were so firmly clenched that her food had to administered through the nose and when she awoke her gums had completely overgrown her teeth. She was detained in the asylum until her faculties had resumed their normal condition. and until her memory, which had completely gone, was grad ually restored When discharged per feet 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 with out a parallel, as the following win show:
 Blanchet, a French physician. records the case of a patient--a lady 24 years of age-who on three separate occasions slept for extraordinary periods of time. At the age of IS she slpet for forty days. at the age of 20 she again slept for fifty days, and the last recorded sleep extend- ed for nearly year.
 On this occasion she was supplied with liquid nourishment and during the time she remained in the comatose condition she was motonless and insensible. the pulse was low and her breathing was scarcely perceptible; but her complexion remained lorid and healthy.
 Somewhat similar. was the case of a la boring man named Samuel Clinton, who resided at Timsbury, near Bath. At tic age of 25 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 happened.
 Two years later he slept for seventeen weeks, and during that time he occasion ally, without waking, partook of the food which was constantly kept beside him. Again he awoke naturally. and on resum- ing work was somewhat surprised to find it was harvest time. The period that had elapsed between the sowing and the reaping had been to him a blank.
 A year later, after complaining of a shivering 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 purpose of arous- ing him, but all attempts proved fruit less. Even the infliction of pain, which under ordinary circumstances would have been excruciating failed to make the slightest impression upon him.
 William Foxley, who was at one time pot maker for the mint in the Tower of London. once slept for fourteen days and fifteen nights, and then awoke under the impression 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.