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Show 37olcr:i 8;m Vorf.3tijors. A recent issue of a medical journal published pub-lished at Vienna cmir-iins r.ti account of a curious dIjiCH.se now prevailing to a lindted extcntattheAttatri.nl ci'piuil. The victim while within the Iiou.m shows no abuonnal symptom;, but once out, of dr.ors fixes his j eyos upon the mm, rti:d iostead of being i daw, en is able to stxrtt steadily at the fierce lijlit. Ilo spreads his le3 bo as to actjidro a firm fiKt'.niC, his Iir.i!)3 liecoma paralysed, and for the time ho hears no one speak to him, sees nothing but tin sun, , and appears dead to the re.t of hia ur-roundlngs. ur-roundlngs. After alwut tin minutes, when the retina hmt become wearied, he falls powerless to the ground, v.iiere he remains re-mains a few mitiutra. Thun Ive raises himself him-self slowly, walks ahout, and presently he is subject to ti;e same attract ion jijain, and the phenomena abne described are yone through a ncsond time. |