The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-07-23
A CURIOUS CASE.


A CURIOUS CASE.
Tae Blind Clairvoyant Who Described
the Doctors Brain Before He Died.
..Do believe in clairvoyautsP" said
. well-known citizen of Railway. form
erly . medical student, yesterday. II
cannot say that do, but was once
almost ready to believe in them. In
the year 1845 the building at the south
east corner of Barclay and Church
street, New York. which is now fac
tory. was occupied as q private board
ing-house. AS the location suited my
convenience, 1 engaged a room there,
and took possession of it one Saturday.
about the middle of January. Among
my fellow-boarders was DIR. Hathaway,
surgeon of the United States army,
who had been on duty at the hospital
on Staten island. During my first
evening at the house o young lady Wis
itor was present who was introduced
to me simply as Mary. She was blind.
Ihad listened but short time to the
conversation of these people before L
learned that they were almost mono
maniacs on the subject of mesmerism,
and afterward learned that the blind
girl, Mary, was a clairvoyant subject
Of DR.. LIE Grande, a well-known physi-
clan, who professed to cure diseases
by mesmerism.
before retiring that night 1 went
out to u restaurant in Park row for q
plate of oysters. When l returned to
!, the boarding-house, having been gone
little over half an hour, the front
: door, which l had carefully fastened,
was wide open, lights were glancing
- . kk,,, .l1 ,f
fusion in the uppcr part of the house.
%a fit, and that DIR. Van Buren,, DR..
Parker, and another physician. whose
name cannot now recall. had been sent
for, and were in attendance. Finding
could be of no service. went to bed,
and next morning the landlady in
= formed me that the doctors fit was q
slight attack of apoplexy, upaccom-
!, panied with paralysis, and that he
would probably be all right in few
days. He was not all re,ht, however,
IL either in @ few days or few weeks.
"Before the end of the month I
moved uptown, but about the latter
part of March, having business down.
town, L called at my old boarding
place. found DIR. Hathaway seated
in his room in an invalid chair.
not quite cheerful, but apparent
Aglys not ailing much, although he
Complained OF pain in the right side
Of hiss bead, As was leaving the
house the landlady drew mo into her
room and asked me what l thought of
DR.. Hathaway's case. My reply was:
The doctor is doing we'll. Ii he will
get out and take moderate exercise, he
win soon be entirely we'll
"She shook her head mournfully, and
said: He will never go out again.
He win never leave that room alive
as4kassssWhat reason have you for such q
melancholy suppositionP' asked.
MARY says so.'
s.f.Whatp Has Mary been here
frightening you with her fummeryp
said. si5s
mo; Mary has not been in the
house since the night you met hel
- here, she replied. AT DR.. Hathaway
Grande's office. She went into q trance
and examined DIR. Hathaway. She
saws that the inside of his skull on the
right side is all sore and liberated and
that there are three Jumps on the righl
side of his brain as large as hickory
nuts; that he will never get over il
that it will all be over with him by the
! FIRST of May. and that you will be pres
ent at the post-mortem examination.
..Me?'
= ".You.'
".What suggested such an idea al
shatP'
@af 81 don't know; she sometimes takes
great interest in strangers she casually
meets. She knows great deal about
your future
1.-The fortune-telling charlatanr
thought. OF course i was Too polite tc
e express this opinion aloud, and after 8
= few commonplace remarks took my
= leave.
During the next month my MIND
was otherwise so much occupied that
almost forgot the afflicted physician;
but ON the last day of April, when
sat down to my dinner, / was startled
20 find on my plate note announcing
DR.. Hathaway's death and inviting me
TO post-mortem examination at 1C
o'clock next morning. When l en-
tered the death chamber at the ap
pointed hour found several eminent
physicians and surgeons assembled
. there. DR.. Moses. who was demon
! strator of anatomy at the University o
New York, was conducting the autop
sy. When the top of the Uranium was
removed from the brain, and handed
roun6 for Inspection, what was my
surprise to see that the lining mem
brane ON the right side had been ex
tensively infamed, just exactly
as the blind clairvoyant had described
and further, upon cutting into the sub
stance of the brain on the right side
.s three large tubercles were found. ,
fare and remarkable pathological con
dition."
THAT was very remarkable.
''Yes, but at the funeral CHANGED t.
eide in the same carriage with q rela
tive of the deceased, who told me tina
q sister of DIR. Hathaway had diee
some years before, after suffering ab0u
the same length of time with simila
symptoms, and that the same patholog
ical conditions had been found on post
mortem examination" = NeW YOrj
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