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Show Sleeping Sickness Victim Slumbers 4 Days in Chair Special to The Tribune. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, March 27. The case of a man, aged 35, whose name is withheld by attending physicians, a patient in the Boyd hospital here, who has been asleep for fourteen days, has been diagnosed diag-nosed as one of lethargic encephalitis, encephali-tis, or sleeping sickness. The patient at first was fed through a tube, but is awakened now for brief periods and takes his meals in a normal manner. Symptoms of paralysis, said to result frequently from the disease, were manifested this morning, although the physicians physi-cians anticipate the eventual recovery recov-ery of the patient. The patient is a ranchman residing resid-ing alone in the Raft river country south of Burley. On March 13 he spent a day with relatives in Burley, leaving with the statement that he would return on the following day. Four days passed and no word was had from him. He was found asleep in his chair, in which position it is believed he had been for four days. He Is believed to have recovered recently re-cently from influenza. He manifested mani-fested drowsiness and a tendency to sleep while at Burley. |