A Case of Hysterical Coma

A native female named Sukhia, aged about 45, was found lying i" an unconscious condition in a warden adjoining her house and brought by the police to the Hospital at 8 P.M. on the 17th of October. The police could give no history of her condition except that she was found in the state in which she reached the hospital. I saw her at 8-30 P.M., and found her perfectly unconscious; eyes closed, appearance calm and placid; frothy fluid coming out of her mouth; arms, forearms, and hands lying quiet on her side ; no stirring of the limbs, no tossing about from side to side; respiration normal in rhythm and number and perfectly noiseless; there was a peculiar sweetish odour emitted from her body quite unlike that of opium, liquor or unemia As soon as I opened the lids the eyeballs rolled upwards, and the pupils were visible only for a short time to make thorough examination possible; as far as could be made out they were found to be normal.