| Show twelve years yeara in a state of coma the paris correspondent of the london chronicle telegraphs that a woman named INI marguerite arguerite Bouy enval who fell into a state of catalepsy on may 35 25 1882 is still alive and asleep her parents refuse to allow her to te be transferred to the ere the story would be scarcely credible if not attested by medical authority marguerite Bouy enval was delivered of 1 a I male child which died two days after its birth suspicion was aroused and a magistrate accompanied by two gen darmes visited the cottage of the at thenelles The nelles a village near st quentin the girls fri fright ht was so bad that she had a terrible fit of hysteria followed by cataleptic coma in which condition notwithstanding the efforts of doctors and electricians she has remained for more than twelve years on such occasions she has moaned audibly she is fed on milk and peptone and removed once a day from one bed too to another in 1893 an american showman offered a largo large sum to be allowed to take lake margurite rito Houy enval to the chicago exposition ahe the parents at first agreed but they were eventually dissuaded by the parish priest and local doctor |
