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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
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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
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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.
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