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186 KIRBY*S WONDERFUL MUSEUM-.
and when they were over, she sat down and spoke an hour
and a half together, in the same tone and style as has been al-
ready described; but at last she ran into extravagancies, accom-
panied with terrible agonies, which ended in a violent frenzy.
All the remedies these skilful gentlemen could think of, the
three or four days she continued at Besanqon, were ineffectual.
She was sent home to Vesoul, having obtained a decree in
her favour; and never once after relapsed, but continued to
enjoy perfect health.
Gent. Mag. 1753,.p. 566.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER AT NEWCASTLE.
In the year 1752, during the summer, the following par-
ticulars happened at Newcastle, in Staffordshire, related by
a lady of discernment and veracity, who went to see the
sleeper several times. She was a girl about 19 years of age|.
she slept 14 weeks, without waking, although several me-
thods were tried to wake her, as bleeding, blistering, &c.; in all
which time she took no sustenance, except about nine o’clock
every night, she opened her mouth, and then some person
that attended her, dipped a feather in wine, and with that
wetted the inside of her mouth. Her father often gave her
an airing in a horse chair, and sometimes took her several
miles, to have the advice of the physicians; but neither the
motion of travelling, nor any thing the physicians could do,
could awake her; she appeared to be healthy all the time,
breathed freely,, and her pulse beat very regularly, but rather
too slow; she never moved herself all the time, except
once, it is thought, she moved one leg. When she awaked,
it was very gradually, being two or three days from the time
she began to stir and open her eyes, before she was quite
awake, and then seemed to be very well, but complained
of faintness. I heard, last summer, that she had then
good health, and had no return of her sleepiness.
Derby, Dec. 20. Gent.Mag. 1753, p. 56/.
and when they were over, she sat down and spoke an hour
and a half together, in the same tone and style as has been al-
ready described; but at last she ran into extravagancies, accom-
panied with terrible agonies, which ended in a violent frenzy.
All the remedies these skilful gentlemen could think of, the
three or four days she continued at Besanqon, were ineffectual.
She was sent home to Vesoul, having obtained a decree in
her favour; and never once after relapsed, but continued to
enjoy perfect health.
Gent. Mag. 1753,.p. 566.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER AT NEWCASTLE.
In the year 1752, during the summer, the following par-
ticulars happened at Newcastle, in Staffordshire, related by
a lady of discernment and veracity, who went to see the
sleeper several times. She was a girl about 19 years of age|.
she slept 14 weeks, without waking, although several me-
thods were tried to wake her, as bleeding, blistering, &c.; in all
which time she took no sustenance, except about nine o’clock
every night, she opened her mouth, and then some person
that attended her, dipped a feather in wine, and with that
wetted the inside of her mouth. Her father often gave her
an airing in a horse chair, and sometimes took her several
miles, to have the advice of the physicians; but neither the
motion of travelling, nor any thing the physicians could do,
could awake her; she appeared to be healthy all the time,
breathed freely,, and her pulse beat very regularly, but rather
too slow; she never moved herself all the time, except
once, it is thought, she moved one leg. When she awaked,
it was very gradually, being two or three days from the time
she began to stir and open her eyes, before she was quite
awake, and then seemed to be very well, but complained
of faintness. I heard, last summer, that she had then
good health, and had no return of her sleepiness.
Derby, Dec. 20. Gent.Mag. 1753, p. 56/.