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H. Scales. secretaries

SENSATIONS IN A TRANCE.
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The sensation of seemingly dead person.
while confined in the coffin, are mentioned in
! the following case of trance: young lady, an
attendant on the Princess ---, after having
been confined to her bed for great length OF
time with violent nervous disorder, was at last


to all appearance, deprived of life, Her lips


were quite pale her face resembled the counten-
ance of dead person. and her body grew cold.


She was removed from the room in which she


died, was laid in coffin, and the day of her


funeral fixed on. The day arrived, and accord


ing to the custom of the country, funeral songs


and hymns were sung before the door. Just as


the people were about to nail down the lid of


the coffin, kind of perspiration was observed


to appear on the surface of her body. 1t grew


greater every moment, and at last kind of con-


vulsive motion was observed in the hands and


feet of the corpse. A few minutes after, during


which time fresh signs of returning life appear


ed she at once opened her eyes, and uttered a
most pitiable shrek. Physicians were quickly


procured, and in the course of few days she
was. considerably restored, and is probably alive
at this day. The description which she gave of
her situation is extremely remarkable, and forms
curious and authentic addition to Psychology.


She said it seemed to her that she was really
dead yet she was perfectly conscious of all
that happened around her in this dreadful state.
She distinctly heard her friends speaking and
lamenting her death at the side of her coffin
She felt them pull on the dead clothes and lay
her in them. This feeling produced mental
anxiety which is ndescribable She tried to cry,
but her soul was without power, and could not
act in her body. She had the contradictory
feeling as if she were in the body and yet not
in it at one and the same time. 1t equally
impossible for her to stretch out her arms, or to
open her eyes, or to cry, although she continu-
ally endeavoured to do so. The internal anguish
of her mind was, however, at its utmost height,
when the funeral hymns were begun to be sung
and when the lid of the coffin was about to be
nailed down. The thought that she was to be
buried alive the that gave activity to her
mind and caused it to operate on her corporeal
frame. Binns on Sleep.