Medicine: Sleepers' Milestones

In Oak Park, Ill., having slept through two birthdays, an attack of lobar pneumonia and the marriage and maternity of her first nurse, Patricia Maguire, 28, victim of lethargic encephalitis, last week ended her second year of sleeping by sleeping on. She has lately begun to sit up, eat solid food.

In Memphis, Tenn., Joe Huggins, who has been kept in a semicoma since Nov. 19, 1930 by what some doctors think is encephalitis and some a spine injury, last week reached his 11th birthday. He has lately begun to move his arms,...

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