ASTOUNDING CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 6

ASTOUNDING CASE

SPECIALIST BAFFLED

OF HUNGARIAN EX-SOLDIER

United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright. )

VIENNA, January 12

Brain and nerve specialists in Central Europe are baffled by the astonishing case ,of Paul Kern, a Hungarian Government official, who has not slept has not even closed his eyes since he was wounded by a Russian bullet on the Eastern front. He recovered consciousness in a Lemberg hospital. Thence he was transported to Budapest. From the moment that he opened h|is eyes at Lemberg lie has not slept, nor indeed had the slightest desire to do so. <

The best brain and nerve specialists in Budapest are unable to trace, by means of the X-Ray, any abnormality.

Doctor Frey a noted University professor, who has been treating him for vears admits he is baffled.

Curiously apart from an occasional headache, Kern does not suffer. He has not gone to bed for years. His work reveals that there is not the slightest sign of deterioration. At first Kern tried to sleep, but his hours of wakefulness in bed exhausted him more than working. His twentyfour hours are made up as follows. Nine to two o’clock, work at the Pensions Department; two to six o’clock, writing and reading; seven o’clock p.m. to seven o’clock a.m., a round of the night flubs and cabarets, a bath a change of clothes, breakfast, and again work. Kern complains, that the only unpleasant result pf his wound is the costliness of his being awake for the 24 hours day.