CURIOUS CASE
EVERYTHING DONE BACKWARD
i United Press Association.-By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.2 b a.m) LONDON, April 22
A curious case, without record cr parallel, is narrated in the “Lancet,' by t.wo medical men, of a domestic sei - vant, aged 28, who wrote and read backwards, held her prayer book »i church upside down, and when tidying the room put vases a.nd photographs back on the shelf upside down, and reversed pictures. The case is described as pseudo mirror writing. The patient was restored to normality under light hypnosis. I' l early life she lmd been in a mental hospital ; she had also lost, her speech, but a tenvards recovered it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 5
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114CURIOUS CASE Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 5
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