Aleksey Vodovozov quoted a French surgeon as saying about this patient: “At the age of fourteen, she was overwhelmed by a lethargic sleep that lasted several days; and it was so deep that she was thought to be dead. From that moment on, the painful sleep recurred at irregular intervals; this usually lasted 8-10 days, sometimes 15; and in one single case it persisted until the 17th day. During the first four years of her illness, this poor girl had appetites as strange as they were dangerous, causing her to eat lime, plaster, earth, and vinegar. She then ate indiscriminately all kinds of food except bread, for which she retained an irresistible aversion until she was completely cured. Bread has always made me vomit.”
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