The Hindu : dated 26th November, 1952: Man who turns ape at night

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dated 26th November, 1952: Man who turns ape at night

British doctors were keeping secret the name of a 42-year-old Londoner whom they were treating for a peculiar problem. He had told them that while he lived a normal life during the day, at 2 a.m. in the night he experienced an irresistible call which took control of him, causing him to leap from bed and go down on all fours, growling unintelligibly. Charged with aggression, he had also been climbing trees with ape-like agility. The man had come back to England from India a few years earlier. A psychiatrist found him normal in daytime. Then the doctor tried an experiment simulating night and sleep conditions for the man, who underwent a rapid change. The patient got out of bed, hunched his back like an ape, and shuffled off into the garden to climb trees. A report on the case said the man transformed back into human behaviour when dawn broke and he woke from his sleep.

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