UNUSUAL MALADY
MEDICAL MEN PUZZLED BY CASS OF "MIRROR WRITING" EVERYTHING DONE BACKWARDS LONDON, Saturday. A curious case without record or parallel is narrated in the "Lancet" by two medical nien, of a domesticservant, aged 28, who wrote and read backwards, held the Prayer Book in the Church upside down, and when tidying the rooni, put vases and photographs back on shelves upsidi down and reversed the pictures. The case is described as "pseudo mirror-writing." The patient was restored to normality under light hyp1 nosis. * In early life, she had been in a mental hospital and lost her speech, but she recovered it afterwards.
Mirror writing is that form of caligraphy which, like an impression on blotting paper, is reversed and becomes legible on holding up to a mirror. It is often associated with left-handedness, may occur in all classes of persons, from the mentally deficient to the genius, may eoncern adults, or children, and may he con- | scious or unconscious.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 April 1932, Page 2
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