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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. 



