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Show STBAKGE SLEIP. An unbroken sleep, lasting through seven days and seven nights. This Is what three-year-old Earl Pur-cell, Pur-cell, who lives at 1312 Curtis street, has Just awakened from, and his case has completely mystified the physicians of Denver. Never before In the history of materia medlca. so far as authentic records show, has such a thing happened, and the subject lived and retained his reason. rea-son. Yet little Earl Pureell i as bright as ever after his long nap, and does not show any 111 effects excepting an extreme ex-treme nervousness. Saturday. March 11. while playing about the yard, he was seized with severe se-vere convulsions, one following the other, until the child's life was despaired de-spaired of. No sooner had the convulsions ceased than he rfankjnto a deep slumber. That was toward evening. All that night he slept and all the next day and all Monday Mon-day and Tuesday and Wednesday, until un-til his parents and the attending physician. phy-sician. Dr. William Rothwell, became alarmed. v So faint was his breathing that it was only by pressing an ear to his lips that it was known he lived. Milk was, at stated intervals, put into the child's mouth and aulte mechanically swallowed. swal-lowed. .The child was as limp as one dead, and the parents hourly watched for the little life to slip away. Thursday the child showed signs of awakening. His mother saw his blue eyes open wide ancThe smiled faintly, but In a moment had dropped again into a deep sleep. The physician was completely puzzled and predicted if the child did live he would lose his Intellect. Saturday morning Mrs. Pureell arose and went to the side of his crib, as usual. Again the blue eyes were open and a bright smile greeted her, and soon Earl was playing about as usual, though somewhat languid, his unusually unusual-ly bright intellect not dimmed at all by his long sleep. Before his Illness the child was a constant con-stant physical culturlst. He swung his two-pound dumbbells night and morning morn-ing as lightly as though they were feathers. Indian clubs, too. he swung with the dexterity of a practical hand. He was a picture of glowing health when he was taken ill, and his muscular mus-cular development was unusual for a , child of his years. Denver Post. |