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Show LENGTHY SLEEP KILLS PAIN Miss Evans Apparently Cured of Neuralgia Neu-ralgia After Long Period of Insomnia. New Orleans, La. One of the most remarkable cases on record in the Charity hospital was one that devel-" devel-" oped in Miss Hattie Evans, aged fifty-five. fifty-five. Doctors tried to put her to sleep after she had been awake for days and nights, and when they finally succeeded suc-ceeded they could not awaken her for five days and nights. Several weeks ago she was brought to the hospital suffering from nueral-B'a. nueral-B'a. The doctors asked her how she rested. "I don't sleep at night, much less in the day, and I am not tired or sleepy, eher," she replied. The treatment was changed and Ehe expressed relief. Soon afterward he began to complain of being tired. , One night while the nurse was pass- ' '"g through the room she heard the Jtient snoring. She slept all that "8M and all the next day. Five n'ghts and days elapsed before she u'd e awakened. Now she Is rid 01 ber neuralgia. |