The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-20
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A correspondent OF the NsHssYol
World, writing from Paris, gives The TO-,
lowing strange and ;hnrdl credible 90.
Dount ofths 3eoent tTsnsf1sion 1 n dead.
hans brainS:into q living gpbjS6t The
Eaactl.are reported by the World .oorfes-
[pondent as recorded In tho 9dsate
He6dondddirs, taken from !. Tlfchoto's .,
Archives, medical journal published ct
Berlin: -. 2.
It was At Leipzig that the experiment
was performed. A soldier who had
killed tho o1ionei of his regiment ia coiii
blood, and whom the severity OF Prus.
sian military discipline would have
caused to die q hundred deaths had it
been possible. was deliberately handed
over to the surgeons, by sentence Of
court martial, and was confined in q
strong room in the military hospital,
entirely in the dark as to the fate which
awaited him. He was kept there ready
for an emergency. which did not fail to
occur. A keeper of beer cellar in
Leipzig, q man resembling, III many re-
spects, the condemned soldier, and who
had been seized with acute Inflammation
OF the heart, or rather of it's investing
membrane, was brought to the hospital
to die ct that ;ncc.shie and promptly
fatal malady. No sooner had the antioi-
pated death taken place than the dead
saioon.keeper was placed on tho table by
the side OF another operating table, on
which was the ohloroformed but living
body OF the soldier. Two surgeons,
with assistants, proceeded alike in both
csees TO divide the scalp over the sum-
NIT OF the skull from ear to ear, turn
back the division, and remove the skull
cap by lncisione, passing around the
skull like q crown. In the soldier,
whose carotid arteries had been prepared
for compression. these vessels we're
clamped 80 as to prevent hemorrhage,
and but few drops Of blood were lost
during the entire operation. In each,
the durd mater was iucised, and the
hemispheres Of the brain were removed
by ali incision with sharp, thin -bladed
knife passing above the cerebellum, or O
narrow portion Of about two inches in q
diameter called the crura cerebri. The
brain of the saloon-keeper, which was
sound, the heart disease having left it
intact, he having been sensible to the
last. was transferred to the skull of the
soldier, and by an ingenious contrivance
the continuity of the artcrial and venous
tubes vas established. The greatest care
was taken i'll securing the natural adap.
tation Of the parts to fraction of a line,
and the skull, having been replaced sim
ply, was held down and In position by
the scalp, which was drawn over, and it's
edges confined by strips OF adhesive
plaster, aud over all was placed band
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It waanot until aeveral days had pass
ed, that the pressure upon the carotid
arteries was entirely relaxed. although,
before the skull was replaced, tho how
of blood in the vessels OF the brain was
proved to be restored. The chief fear
was from the results of inflammation and
suppuration, but. fortunately, neither
epsued, and the wounded parts healed
kindly: There was. from the hrst. no
difficulty in feeding the patient, nor was
that in puppies and kittens in which the
aud swallowing 60 on as we'll as before
the operation, and in this case the nerves
which preside oyer deglutition and di-
gestion were far below the point of suo-
| ton. The patient remained in O sound
sleep for two weeks, as in case of apo
plexy, the circulation, digestion and all
the vegetative functions Of life being un-
interrupted. The gradual union of the
parts was shown by faint bat gradually
increasing movements of the limbs, of
the jaws and Of the muscles OF expression
in the face. Speech did not become
possible. until the close of the third week,
and then it was hesitating, stammering,
as child learns. Although, it was evi
dent that the patient tried to utter words
and sentences, it was very gradual that
the power Of intelligible articulation re.
! turned.
The Guzet,e contains the report, in a
tabular form, of the increasing voluntary
power over the arms and hands, as mea-
sured from day to day by the dynamome
ter, the measurements given in kilo-
grammes; also. the daily temperature of
the limbs, as shown by the thermometer
in degrees Of centigrade; also, the mea-
sure of returning sensibility Of The
fingers and lips, as given by an instru-
ment called an Wsthesiometer; but I
omit these, as your readers will be inte-
rested in the main faots only.
When speech became intelligible it
was found that the soldier; as he seemed,
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