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drugs, and endeavours to push the spoon away with her 
left hand. 
The attitude during the day is quite different from 
that assumed at night, and the patient undoubtedly 
sleeps more soundly at night than during the day. In 
the daytime her legs are extended, at night, drawn up. 
In the daytime she is put either on her back or right 
side, at night on her left side, and remains in this 
position until morning without moving—in fact, cannot 
roll over. She will not settle down for the night until 
a drink of cold water is given. In the daytime, some- 
times for an hour or so at a time, appears to be nearer 
a condition of consciousness than at any other time. 
This occurs generally after breakfast, but she has to be 
roused for her meals. 
When heavy coverlets are put on the bed she 
attempts to shove the blankets off with her left hand, 
and likes to be very lightly covered. The eyes are 
three parts closed during the day and completely closed 
at night. The face sometimes becomes flushed. She 
never speaks, and, in fact, has spoken but once in eleven 
years or more, and that was quite recently (1890), 
when she said: “I am not asleep.” Her appetite has 
been better since she has been in the long sleep than it 
was before, and she eats things she would not touch 
when awake. At least once during the present attack 
she has, unassisted, got out of bed, and there is reason 
to believe she has done the same thing several times, 
but not within three years, as her physical condition 
renders it impossible. Several times the nurse fancied 
the patient was moving about the room at night, but 
for some time could not actually prove that such was 
the case. At last, however,.a fall was heard in the 
middle of the night, and the patient was found lying 
fast asleep at the bottom of the stairs, down which she 
had fallen. 
