The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-29
SLEEPING GIRL
 DIEDLAST NIGHT
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NGWAAVAAWIU ENkG 4l ---4--e-s<-@.a,s4--s -, sion to perform an autopsy. such on a1topsy might be very valuable to medical lEtiowledge," pr. Tfaut said. we certainly could learn something of the disease and might even Do able to point the way to . cure"
 What Is Alteady Known
 This much wa1 known already: Miss Maguire, and active outdoor girl Of %, with blue eyes and A pink complexion, fell iii of influ- enzA in January l03l. Apparently she recovered. Periods of drowbi- ness began to trouble her in DeceIh- Der, 1881. "What k happening to me7" she asked her mother. Each day ahe became drowsigr. She dis- liked arising in the morning, wanted to go to bed earlier each night. She became forgetfil, complained of double vision.
 Her sleep Begins
 On February I4, St. Valentines Day, she posted . Valentine, want home, cfawled into bed. She slumbered fltfully for nearly two weeks, then dropped into Q definite coma from which the loudest shouts would not rouse her. Her body was rigid ct first, then became relaxed. There were definite symptoms of sleeping sickness; an ayperextended, rigid great toe and rigid neck muscles. Past history showed sleep- ing sickness victims lost weight. Usually they recovered in seven or eight weeks or died. But Miss Mcguire gained weight = approxi- tnately 35 pounds. Her cheeks be- came rosy. She seemed to thrive.
 Long Fight Ends
 The long fight - five years, seven months and 14 days ended last night in 6 room in Presbyterian Hospital where Miss Mcguire lay. A nurse administered oxygen. Doc- tors had given blood transfusionS and heart stimulantS. Her mother, Mrs Peter Miley, her stepfather, Peter Miley, her sister, Mrs. Gladys Hansen, wept. They had given up hope. Last rites of the Roman Catholic faith had been admin iStered.
 Still Longer Sleep
 Westfleld, Mass, September 2o.-- (UP) - The death of Patricia Mcguire, Chicago's "Hleeping Beau ty," today focused public interest anew on 8 Massachusetts young woman who still sleeps after an even longer coma.
 It was 10 years ego next January l6 that Miss Helen Louise Busch mann, Now %, was struck by bus ct Gainesville, Ohio, where she was studying at Lake Erie College for Women. In the intervening decade she has remained either completely or partially in the coma into which she immediately lapsed.
 Today here doctors gloomily re- ported:
 "No change and no future"
 Burden Too Great
 Until the burden became too great, her widowed mother, Mrs. Emma E. Buschmarln, cared for her ct their home here and, at one time, in Worcester. But in recent months Miss Buschmann has been confined to an institution.
 Not until recently did the heart- broken mother lose hope that she ultimately might recover.
 Specialists had believed some out side influence, such aS sad or sweet melodies as played on e violin. might suddenly snap her out Of her profound slumber. But 1t never happened.
 Failure of injured brain cells to knit properly Is blamed for her plight.
 Autopsy Is Allowed
 Chicago, September 20. - (UP) - Surgeons performed an autopsy upon the body of Patricia Mcguire today but learned nothing which might explain her five years and months of sleeping sickness.
 Mrs. Peter Miley, the girls mother, consented to the operation in hope that doctors might find some clue to a cure for the Nlness' encephalitis lethargia. The results were described by Presbyterian hos pital officials as more or less what was expected"
 The autopsy disclosed severe bronchial pneumonia, encepha litis, an ovarine cyst and cerebral atrophy of the frontal lobe Of the brain, . drying up of the front or the brain.
 The cerebral atrophy was said to have been the only unexpected re- suit and doctors will try to de- termine whether this hes any signu- icance. Their first opinion was that 1t has none. This effect is common In elderly persons. .