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MODERN MARVEL

GIRL STUDENT LOSES HER MEMORY DURING SLEEP. LEARNS TWELVE LANGUAGES. A strange case of double personality in Paris has been brought to the notice of the Academy of Medicine by M. Marinesco. After a severe attack of pleurisy a young female law student lapsed into a long sleep. When she awoke her memory was completely gone. She had already passed several law examinations, but appeared on waking unable to understand a word of French, which she had previously written and spoken with perfect fluency. She seemed, in fact, to find herself in an unknown world.

But what most astonished the doctors in attendance was the girl's knowledge 'of foreign languages, which she had never spoken before she went into her long sleep. She spoke fluently in no fewer than 12. In writing, however, she used her left hand instead of her right, though she had never been known to write with her left hand before. After being carefully coached in French she has learned it again as would a child, and is still studying elementary arithmetic, although she used to be a good mathematician. How during the girl's sleep she acquired twelve foreign languages and completely forgot her own is a problem of sub-conscious personality which is being much debated by members of the learned assembly. _

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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 155, 23 February 1932, Page 7

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MODERN MARVEL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 155, 23 February 1932, Page 7

MODERN MARVEL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 155, 23 February 1932, Page 7

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