Letter, 'A woman lying 19 days in a swoon' from unknown author to unknown recipient The author describes a woman called Phillis Wilson from Northumberland [England] who lay for 19 days without any sign of life apart from a palpitation in her throat. Someone lifted the woman's eyelids and found her eyes to be completely yellow. When the woman awoke, she had no sense of having been asleep for such a long time. Subject: Medicine / Physiology Addressed to a 'Madame'. Written in Torrieboone [?], Scotland. S 9 December 1668