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o 5 o Wednesday, December 14, 1955 MEDFORD (OREQOTn MAIL TRIBUNE THRU o ' , - ' v5 5 A iiwi Mir RECOVERING FROM POLIO thanks to U. S. sailors of har bor defense unit at Yokosuka, Mayumi Ilkima thanks them individually for money they donated for medical care when they learned of her plight last spring. (International) SCIENCE AT WORK (7) to New York (U.R) Psychia trists the world over are pon dering the exceedingly strange case of the living-dead Hindu who for seven years departed from this world yet, in the flesh, remained around. You may en joy pondering it, too, since it show,?, there are still mysteries within men which pale mystery Hind', was 56 when it started. He was father of 10 children, had been an employee of )givernment department for 22 years. His chief had died. He was in line to succeed. But other government workers in- By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor ft'sa Merry Ch ristmas to Mil when its for Christmas Istjf i it " YLVANIA W OUGHT Compare them oil tol956Sylvania TV at this low pricel Here's what you get in the Sylvania "Decatur": HaloLighr surround lighting , "Silver Screen 85" Custom 33 chassis for more power Versatile styling S29995 OTHER As Low as MODELS $259.95 Lay-Away Now CITY APPLIANCE . 127 North Central Medford ?"Phone 3-5306 137 East Main Ashland Phone 9-5831 Open Tonite 'Til 9 trigued. First, he was trans ferred to another department. Then he was suspended. No one would tell. him what the charges against him were. He fretted and fumed. Two months passed, while he kept saying he didn't feel too well and was afraid he might become ill. One day his temperature shot up to 103 degrees. He was semi conscious. Malarial parasites, but of the benign type, were found in his blood. After two days of fever, he became like a dead man except he was alive. No Folk Tale It is a state in which the word "stupor" is applied, but in its medical sense. Living-dead is the clearest way of describing that sort of stupor. His body kept right on functioning. But his mind no longer cared to ex ercise sovereignty over it. He was gone, yet he was there on a bed and breathing. Mind you, this is no folkish tale from mys tic India. It is a sober and factual medical account of some thing that happened. One of the man's sons was a fully qualified physician. Thus, the resources of modern medi cine were brought to bear. Every test was made to find out what was wrong with this vegetating human body. The collective re sult was nothing was wrong. Temperature was normal. But reflexes were non-existent. No part of the body moved, unless it was moved. An arm or a leg could be twisted into a grotes que position and it would stay there until gravity straightened it. There was no evidence that the body felt sensation of any kind. In this state the man remained for seven years. Once each day, all his joints were massaged, including the small joints of fingers and toes. Each day, nu trition was put into the body by injection or by stomach tube; each day, waste substan ces were removed. Explanation Wanted During the seven years, pneu monia developed. It was treated with penicillin and cleared up in eight days. During the second year, he developed an abscess on the back. It was treated surgically without anesthesia, and "the patient did not show the slightest movement of his body during the operation." One evening the man's tem perature which, remember, had remained normal sudden ly shot up to 105. Blood tests were normal but again revealed malarial parasites. For four days his temperature readings were on a two-way escalator.. On the fourth day, he had convulsions. Thereafter, the body moved again on its own, at long last. The first movements were in the fingers. Within a few days the toes moved and so did the eyeballs. Slowly, over weeks, the mind came back, exercising more and more sovereignty. Now the man is normal "bright and cheerful as he was before his illness." The charges against him -were dropped . during the first year he was away from the world. His memory is sound save for the seven years. For" them, it is a blank. The report on this strange case was made by Dr. N. S. Vahia of Bombay to a technical journal of the American Psy chiatric Association and to journ als elsewhere in the world. Science would like an explanation. Eugene Electric Rale Reduction Due Eugene (U.R) Some 22.000 customers of the Eugene Water and Electric Board will receive rate reductions next year.' The reductions, approved at a meeting here Monday night, will become effective "on or before" Feb. 1, 1956.. It was expected the changes would mean an eight per cent cut in residential electric bills and a 13 per cent cut for com mercial users. 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