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Show STRANGE SLEEP. ISalt Lake Girl J In Comatose State. For the past twenty, eigh-days eigh-days Bessie Knscht has been a.-.t itep. jJimiiy that Mine she has not spoken a word nor had, to Hii appearances, a waking moment. mo-ment. She put in the first Tweek of her slumber at the home of her parents in Nortti Salt Lake, and the last three weeks' at the Holy Cross hospital. It is a very remarkable case, and the hospital hospi-tal staff is at a loss to account for her condition. She is fed at suitable intervals with liquid food, which slv S swallows automatically when t l is p-red down her throat, but in spite of this nourishment she is gradually wasting away, a;d is from fifteen to twenty pounds lighter than when she went to sieep. It is the belief at the hospital that, unless something is done to re'ieve her, she will scon pass from sieep to death through the exhaustion of the vital forces. When she is rais-;ed rais-;ed to a sitting posture a dis-j dis-j charge stained with blood exudes i from her nostrils, i Her condition is due either to j hysteria or, what is more prob- '. ! able, some obscure injury to the J j brain, such as an abscess or". ' tumor. ' The discharge from the ' nose gives weight to the latter t theory. It is possible that an i operation will be resorted to it all other treatment should fail. ! Tribune. i |
