sentences:  Miles also enrolled in medicine, which was unusual for women at that time, but in the first year she contracted encephalitis lethargica.The disease permanently and profoundly changed her personality, but not her intelligence, such that she was unable to finish her studies and became an eccentric and notorious identity in and around Sydney.In 1923, tired of his daughter's bohemian behaviour and lifestyle, Miles' father had her committed to a hospital for the insane, in Glebe, New South Wales where she stayed for two years.