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48 Medico-Legal J. 119 (1931)
The Sleeping Preacher

handle is hein.journals/medlejo48 and id is 121 raw text is: ORIGINAL ARTICLES THE SLEEPING PREACHER By C. J. RAMAGE Judge 11th Judicial Circuit, Saluda, S. C. One of the greatest mysteries that ever came before me was the colored Sleeping Preacher, Major Perry. I first knew of him when I was just emerging into manhood and later he became a client of mine. He was an excellent man and made no preten- sions to any particular piety when he was awake. In 1895, in company with a friend, I went to his house some fifteen miles from my home, which at that time was in the coun- try. We did not give any notice that we were coming, and as we had to go over unaccustomed roads, we ar- rived late and found Major Perry, who lived as a tenant on a planta- tion belonging to a gentleman friend of mine, already in the midst of his services. He was singing a hymn, said a prayer and began to preach. He gave out a text and it was ver- batim with book, chapter and verse from the Bible. He preached a ser- mon about forty minutes long and had a great deal to say about the WE SENT PREACHERS. His sermon was strong and well delivered and in better language than the average negro could use, though there was the negro dialect in it all. I heard him again some eight years later in public. He would go to bed on a stage, fall asleep and then go through the services. It was under- stood that he could not be awakened and that physicians had used needles on him without any visible effect. I do know that sometimes he would draw up in a knot, so to speak, as if in great agony, and his wife would have to rub him, to get him back to normal. He would, when in one of these spasms, stop abruptly and say nothing, but as soon as the spasms had ceased, he would con- tinue the sentence where he left off and make sense without the loss of a word. There was no chance of a fake when I first heard him, as we went there unexpected and unan- nounced. His sermon was eloquent at times. He died some ten years ago without the mystery ever having been solved. A CASE OF COCAINE POISONING By S. R. GAEKWAD, M.D. Member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, Jalgaon, E. K., B.P., India Nashir Dara Dubash, a Parshi lad aged 16, was operated for enlarged tonsils under Cocaine anaesthesia on June 2, 1931, and died on the same day as a result of Cocaine poisoning. The operation was performed by Major J. H. A. Donneland, R.M.A., surgeon in Goculdas Tejpal Hospital, Bombay. At the inquest, the father testified that Nashir Dara, his son, had been admitted to the hospital on May 28, had been operated on June 2, that the operation had apparently been quite successful, but that the boy had died a few hours later. Major Donneland testified that the Dara was admitted to the hospital

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