A Human Phenomenon.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 31 January 1896, Page 2

A Human Phenomenon.

.-—- O- — r— r--:r :;>;■?: ii: ■;<■■:. \y 5 (Per Press AsßOciationJ; ; / ■ Melbourne, January 28; ; ' A singular cose is engaging the attent* ' ion of the Ballarat police and medical ' men, the question at issue being whether 5 a young widow, who is the mother of two : : children has been formally charged witi? ■?; ; ' vagrancy, is seriously ill or merely ' ingering. According to the ; . Hoßpital > iy\ '^ 1 doctor Mrs Walsh who in. |he ; first^iiis^^ , ;' ]■: ' tance was arrested on a charge bf drankeness, is a-kinSbffdw-awft^^-Mddfieal;^.''- ; ; man says the woman can expectbrate . ' blood whenever she feels so dieposed, and another member of the profession alleges that the patient has the power of raising 1 her temperature to 110 degrees, the high- ' est register of the uiedicGl thermometer. . Asked if he had heard that medical men had made 6uch remarkable statemeote, Dr Gordon replica, " Tes I have heard; \ .that such is the case — that a woman can;, run her temperature up to 110 and vomit blood at pleasure." The opinion ex- . ; pressed by Dr Champion that Mrs Walsh is malingering is supported by other doctors who have seen her frequently during the eleven weeks she was an inmate of the Ballarat Hospital. Meantime she remains in the Hospital, many people believing that the woman is seriously ill.— Post. '