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WONDERFUL SLEEPERS.
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occasions, and fell asleep again, but this lasted only nine
days. It was imagined her sleepy fits would have gone on
increasing. In short during the rest of that year, her life
was a continual and odd alternative of very long sleepings,and
very short wakings. Her shortest sleeping was three days,
and her longest thirteen. Her longest waking was half an
hour, excepting twice, one of which was 3 hours, and the
other 24 hours, the last after taking a vomit, and having
been let blood in the arm and foot.
Her sleep was so sound, that Dr. de laBorderie could not
get her out of it by heating her fingers till they were in a
manner burnt. This sleep is extremely sweet and natu-
ral, without the least agitation or extraordinary heat; the
perspiration very free, the pulse regular and strong, the
complexion of the face not at all altered, but a gentle mois-
ture upon it, as in the most perfect health, only it seems as
if there were some gentle approach towards a catalepsy, for
although in general her limbs have been free from stiffness,
her arms, when Dr. de la Borderie lifted them up, seemed
disposed to keep themselves a good while in that posture,
and it was found necessary to bend them in order to get them
down again. She has not lost any of her flesh. But since
she took the vomit, she complains of a great pain in her
stomach upon w’aking.
Gent. Mag. 1~53, p. 521.
AN ACCOUNT OF A MOST REMARKABLE CATALEPSY,
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
Last year in the time of Lent, a lady about d5, came from
Vesoul to Besanqon, to solicit a law-suit, of the utmost con-*,
sequence to her; wherein if she had miscarried she had been
ruined. After a series of bitter misfortunes, harassed with
the most vexatious inquietude, she was continually with
those who had her affairs in hand, or in some church or
other prostrate at an altar, to engage Heaven in her interest.
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occasions, and fell asleep again, but this lasted only nine
days. It was imagined her sleepy fits would have gone on
increasing. In short during the rest of that year, her life
was a continual and odd alternative of very long sleepings,and
very short wakings. Her shortest sleeping was three days,
and her longest thirteen. Her longest waking was half an
hour, excepting twice, one of which was 3 hours, and the
other 24 hours, the last after taking a vomit, and having
been let blood in the arm and foot.
Her sleep was so sound, that Dr. de laBorderie could not
get her out of it by heating her fingers till they were in a
manner burnt. This sleep is extremely sweet and natu-
ral, without the least agitation or extraordinary heat; the
perspiration very free, the pulse regular and strong, the
complexion of the face not at all altered, but a gentle mois-
ture upon it, as in the most perfect health, only it seems as
if there were some gentle approach towards a catalepsy, for
although in general her limbs have been free from stiffness,
her arms, when Dr. de la Borderie lifted them up, seemed
disposed to keep themselves a good while in that posture,
and it was found necessary to bend them in order to get them
down again. She has not lost any of her flesh. But since
she took the vomit, she complains of a great pain in her
stomach upon w’aking.
Gent. Mag. 1~53, p. 521.
AN ACCOUNT OF A MOST REMARKABLE CATALEPSY,
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
Last year in the time of Lent, a lady about d5, came from
Vesoul to Besanqon, to solicit a law-suit, of the utmost con-*,
sequence to her; wherein if she had miscarried she had been
ruined. After a series of bitter misfortunes, harassed with
the most vexatious inquietude, she was continually with
those who had her affairs in hand, or in some church or
other prostrate at an altar, to engage Heaven in her interest.