Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-10
THE WORK OF GHouLs.
Insanity of Young Medical Student
Caused 6y Finding tie Body of Hts Sister
on a Dissectin0 Table.


Caused By Finding tie Body of Hts Sister
on a DissectinO Table.
Cleveland CO., Herald.
A prominent physician of northern Ohio
yesterday related to Herald reporter the
particulars of horrible occurrence which
happened some little time ago, but which
has heretofore been kept from the public
through the exertiors of the parties con-
cerned. For obvious reasons names will
be withheld, but the rest of the facts are
given as received from the lips of the re-
porter's informant.
Last fall young gentleman, son of a
prominent resident of town not hun
dred miles from Cleveland, went to New
York for the purpose of attending course
of medical lectures at one of the most
widely known medical colleges in the
country. After sojourn in New York of
about two months the young man was sud
denly called to his home in Ohio by tel
egram announcing the severe Hines of his
only sister, a beautiful young maiden just
budding into womanhood, and justly cele-
brated not only for her beauties of face
and form but as we'll for her lovable and
amiable disposition.
On receipt of the message from home the
young man lost no time, but travelled by
night and day until at the bedside of the
loved one. Although nursed by loving
hands and watched over with the tenderest
solicitude, three days after the brothers
arrival home the young lady died. Her
gentle spirit peacefully took its flight and
returned to the Maker who gave it. Words
fail to depict the anguish and inconsolable
sorrow and grief that the bereaved family
felt for the loss of their beloved one. The
mother, worn and exhausted by long con-
tinued worry and sleepless nights passed
at the side of her dear ones couch of pain
and suffering, succumbed to natures man
date and was, soon after the daughters
funeral, herself tossing in an agony of de-
lirium. For two weeks her spirit lowered
between life and death, but finally science
triumphed and the light of consciousness
shone from her eyes again. As soon as
his mothers convalescence was sufficiently
assured to warrant his leaving home, the
young man returned to the pursuit of his
medical studies in New York.
Shortly thereafter the young man was
directed by the demonstration of anatomy
of the college to commerce the work of
dissection, and with that in view he was
assigned portion of a subject on which
to commence operations. The next eve
ming the young man made his first visit to
the dissecting room in the college build
ing, and was initiated by some of his old
er fellow-students into the mysteries of the
scalpel and dissecting knife. After the
first shock incident to the horrible sights
which greeted his gaze had passed away,
he wandered curiously through the long
room, with its sawdust covered floor and
plain deal tables covered by human bodies
in the various stages of decomposition and
mutilation. Faint and almost overcome
by the deathly odor which permeated the
room, he was about to take his departure
when his attention was attracted by the
ribald remarks of two of the students who
wers busily hacking away at the subject
before them. One of the students, noticing
his expression of surprise, accosted him
and requested that he give them his opin-
ion as to whether the teeth in the mouth
of the body were genuine or false. Shudder-
ing at the thought of touching the mani
mate clay. yet disliking to be regarded as
a coward by his fellows, the young man
hastily stepped to the side of the table at
which the others were working. As his eyes
rested on the table his cheek paled, his
countenance grew livid, and with an I'M
earthly shrek he fell swooning to the floor.
There before him, with her fair white flesh
cut and bleeding, lay the body of his loved
sister whom he had so recently seen laid to
rest in the earth. Can a more agonizing
sight be imagined? Well may the reader
shudder, and utter silent prayer that he
may be delivered from such an awful ex-
perience.
1tn lad Nv ~
amazed and startled companions and car
ried to his boarding house, where at last
he regained consciousness, hut only to
glare wildly around him for an instant
and then swoon again. His parents we're
telegraphed for, and when they arrived at
the sufferers bedside he was rolling and
tossing in the midst of a severe attack of
brain fever.
For six long weeks were the yigils kept
up, the young man failing to recognize
the countenances of the almost heart
broken father and mother, who constantly
lowered over him, endeavoring to obtain
some sign of recognition, but all in vain.
At times it required the united strength of
three stout men to hold him on the bed, as
he endeavored in his maniacal fury to es-
cape his nurses. At such times he would
sink back exhausted after the struggle, and
piteously exclaim: 'Why won't you let me
rescue my darling sister," At the end of
six weeks change wes noticeable. That
crisis was imminent seemed apparent to
all. The young mans physical condition
was fearfully reduced. He was so ENACT
ated that his bones seemed almost to pro-
trude from the flesh, and his hands and
| fingers were more like the claws of bird
than anything else. On the day in ques-
ton he calmly looked around him, and, OBJ
serving his mother in the room, gently re-
quested her to hand him drink of water
The overjoyed mother fastened to comply
with his wishes and preferred him the glass
whereat he declined any desire to drink
anything, which, of course, caused her t.
observe him carefully, which she did, and
alas! it was but too easily discernable that
what she feared the most had come true
and her son was maniac. Although quie
and subdued in demeanor, there was that in
! his eyes which told the fearful story thai
reason had left her throne, perhaps for
! ever.
The services of distinguished specials
in mental diseases were engaged, but ht
could do naught for the mind diseased
and with sorrowladen heart the anguisheC