1 she was bewitched) against this evil: after the application
2 of this amulet, within two or three flays time (though I dare
3 not suppose there was any connection between the medicine
4 and the . lise- se), she Hist, (hank a little water, then warm
5 broths in small quantities at a time, .mil nothing else till Palm-
6 SnViny again, twelve months a* Ur, when she began to eat
7 bread and other food as she had formerly done ; and the
8 record states that she was then about the age of sixty, and
9 still living in the same place, ready to testify to the truth of
10 the matter; as were also Thomas White and his wife, who were
11 the only other persons living in the house with her, and who
12 would confidently assert (tor they carefully observed), that
13 they did not believe she ev r took anything whatever in thus*
14 tun Wonka time, nor anything more than what is before men¬
15 tioned until the expiration of the year.”
16 The London Medical and Physical Journal, Vol. XXXV.,
17 1 >. 501), states that: —
18 “An account of the sleeping woman of Dunmbnld, near
19 Montrose, was read by the Rev. James Brewster, at the Uoyid
20 Society of Edinburgh. Her first sleeping fit lasted from the
21 iiTth to the oOtli of June, 1815. Next morning she again
22 fell into a sleep which lasted seven days, without motion,
23 food, or evacuation. At the end of this time, .by moving
24 her hand and pointing to. her mouth, it was understood she
25 wanted food, which was given to her; but she remained in
26 her lethargic state till the 8th of August, six weeks in all,
27 without appearing to Oe awake, except on the 80th of June,
28 &c., Stc. This case is well authenticated.
29 And in J. N WilJan’s Miscellaneous Works, published
30 by A. Smith, M.D., p. 339, lie states that he had seen
31 many, mostly Jews and other aliens, of a dark,, swarthy
32 complexion, sometimes lie six or eight weeks in the torpid
33 insensible condition above described-
34 After this digression I will return to my own adventures,
35 having first cited a case in which the remedy called Mumiai,
36 m 2