The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-26
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c10IL< Le1 - to Gxpt1xD how e IS or why, a1 peop1e lanEk a<d say am haIlucinzHnd; bur ik is the sober fact sh at eyez since lost my eyes. more than ten yesss ago, have seemed 10 see with my brain. But only with certain region of is, nnk the whole"
 The speaker placed the tip of his mid de finger Hghfly on his forehead, as if locating nervoos disturbance, and slowly described with it the perimeter Of a tract not larger than the palm of hand, com meucing at the slight depression in the frcueAl bone, j1se above and between the inner margins of the e,ebrows, and drawing an irregularly oval figure, the superior limit of which barely turned the curvature heneaih the roots of the hair.
 :" It is this part of my brain that sem to see with." he ccntinued placidly. "It is nor merely that l know what is going on about mo, and the relative direction to myself of persons with whom 1 talk, and of one thing to anoehes, but have in this part of the brain just as distinct and vivid a picture of scenes, faces, figures and sur roundings as 1 ever had when in the full possession of my senses. And the oddest ching about it is that my impressions generally prove to be correct You, for example to one of the gvoup- are Of light complexion, tall and sieu- der, slightly bald. with blue eyes, pale vel low hair and full beard slightly darker. You wear jannty gray sack coat, of minute plaid, with vest of the same material, and gray trousers, with narrow stripes of different shades. Your scarf is a red ribbed silk of the Lord Stanley pat tern, with diamond pin"
 The members of the group, four in all, exclusive of the young man with two glass eyes, stared at one another in blank amazement The description could no, have been more accurate in its terms if the blind man had been possessed of a dozen pairs of perfect eyes with which 10 make his observations. They were gath cred about the heater in large drug store hard by Printing House square, New York, and the speaker, who, notwith- standing his inhrmity, has built up large business in cigars, had joined the party not hve minutes before. He was slen- der, 1.-the, muscular man, dressed in per feet taste, selfpossessed and natural in his manner. Hecanied light walking stick in his right hand, moved with the easy grace of person in possession ol ali his senses, and without the least vestige of the groping uncertainty and caution of blind man. On careful in- spection an ordinary observer would have noticed that his eyes were unnatural, but he turned his head so naturally and vivaciously from one to another in speak ing, and wifhal behaved so thoroughly like a person with two good eyes in his head, that one could hardly believe that both orbs had been enucleated, leaving two stumps of the optic nerve.
 Now describe me-" said one of the party, doubter of the medical profes- sion, who believed in nothing but tissues and functions, and did no, deny that a man might haveea soul, but averred that neither dissection nor experiment had ever furnished Any evidence in support of the hypothesis. Describe me, and I'll believe in your brain vision"
 The blind man turned his glass eyes toward the skepeic and answered with the promptitude and absence of hesitancy of one stating a fact of direct observation ''Y You are dark, with a very pale, translu- cent, delicate complexion; dark-gray eyes; hair almost black, with gray streaks about the temples Greek features cut like cameo :; heavily bearded on the upper lip, but elsewhere cleanly shaven. You appear to be about 5 years old you are of slight figure, and you wear . dark cutaway coat with vest of material the same as the coat; gray trousers, with stripes of different shades and a scarf oi pale gold color, confined at the throat by a silver ring ornamented with a dogs head.n
 Unless some kind of cerebral image of surrounding objects were formed it was absolutely impossible for the young man to give in detail such an accurate de- scriptioA of the medical man, with acces- sories of dress, etc.
 "I: is inexplicable," he said musingiy. "I have often heard blind men declare that they could see with the anterior DOT ton of the brain, and pezsoos under the full influence of an3sthafics olen say that they have seen every movement of the sur geons during the operation, not with their eyes, but with the middle raTt of the forehead. But never took any stock in such assertions, not even enough to test them"
 The blind man vent on to tell his story. More than ten years ago, in consequence of an in6ammatosy ai3ection, both eyes were enucleahed. He was then f6 years of age. At 6rst he was perfectly be- vildered by the loss, but gradually his remaining senses, tact and hearing in particular became maryelously acute, and SO accurate that he could estimate dis tances and the directions of foreign bodies with the quickness and exactitude of vision; while with the tips of his fingers he could discriminate eolors and textures with wonderful accuracy. Diff 6erent colors have different temperatures to the trained ssnse, but he ascribes his delicacy of perception in this respect to an influence the existence of which he had no suspicion until he lost his sight Gradually, also, . so-calied new sense was developed He became abaormally