Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Tonsils Cauterized in Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Tonsils Cauterized in Sleep.

For the past five months a girl of thirteen, of good family, had been lying iq a state of complete lcthurgy ir. a private hospital at Yesinet, outside Paris. The sleeping maiden Ims been recently restored to consciousness by Doctor lteffcgenu, who had charge of her, in a peculiar manner. She usually lay asleep with her.mouth wide open and her throat exposed to view. The physician noticed' that one of the tonsils was enlarged, so ho resolved to cauterize it with a redhot iron, nn operation which would be bonuficial to tho patient, even if it did not have the effect of terminating her cataleptic condition. After tho iron had done its work, the girl, who had been previously insensible to the pricking of pins, manifested unmistakable signs of pain and uttered n feeble cry. From that moment slie bogun to return gradually to eonsciousnesK, and at lust awoke, saying to tho nun who was tnking care of her, “Where am If" The patient had no recollection or notion of anything that hail taken place during the five mouths in which she was asleep, and manifested tho greatest surjirise when told about her extraordinarily long slumber. She is now said to be in u normal stato of health, full of spirits, and eager to make up for her long silence.— [London Telegraph.