A STRANGE ILLNESS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 123, 25 May 1926, Page 7

A STRANGE ILLNESS

SEMI-CONSCIOUS FOR SIX MONTHS.

(Fran Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Ist April. Mr. J. Moore Hickson has been called .to the case of a young woman in r Nottingham, Miss Doris Hinton, who has been in a semi-conscious condition for six months, and who has baffled not only the local doctors but also the specialists who have been called in consultation. Mr. Hickson's ministra.tions, lasting two hours, have been of no avail either. Miss Hinton, apparently, is suffering from no organic disease. On 9th October, while listening to the wireless, she took off the head telephones and fell back on a Bofa. It was thought that she had fainted, and a doctor was called, but he was unable to restore her to consciousness. • ' Some time afterwards she was removed to hospital, where she remained for three and a half months, but she never regained consciousness. Specialists came to tho conclusion that she was suffering from a cataleptic condition following upon hysteria. As her condition showed no improvement, she was sent to her home, where she remains in bed. The doctors state that her heart beats are strong and her broathing is normal. During the last two days her physical condition seems to have improved a little. ' All this time she has been fed through a tube in the nose, and she is gaining rather than losing weight. She breathes normally, has healthy colour, and her heart beats strongly. 85, Fleet street. .'