The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-11
GROWING A NEW SKULL.
A st. Louis Hospital Patient Under
going Strange Transformation.

going Strange Transformation.
From the ST Louis Republic.
"Speaking about putting head on
man. said DR.. Heine Marks, superin-
tendent Of the city hospital, II have a
case here in which a new head has
actually been put on a man, and it was
not done by q professional pugilist either.
Nature did the work, " said DR.. Marks,
as he led the way to the upper ward and
stopped before the bedside of patient
whose head resembled an inflated balloon
and whose voice was IS faint as an echo
from secondhand photograph The
bandage was removed and the patient
placed on the operating table to have his
new head dressed. The case is a remark
able one, and IN his extensive practice DR..
Marks has never seen another like it.
William Whiteford, the sufferer, nine
teen years ago had a scorbutic disease
which caused the entire frontal bone to
! decay. Several pieces of the bone had
been removed at different times, and
when he was brought to the hospital DR..
Marks removed the entire frontal bone
and found that new skull was growing
under the old one
Whiteford is 45 years Of age and IS con-
WINGED that fate must have some mission
for him to perform or he would not have
been favored with a new breastplate for
his mental forces at his age of life.
He believes that his brain must be an I'M
usually valuable one and is quite conceited
over the matter. He has the big head in
fact. When the patient was laid upon the
operating table the pulsations of his brain
were plainly visible From phenOlogi-
cal standpoint the operation was not
success His mental characteristics are
jumbled together and his forehead slopes
like corrugated iron gothic roof Mem
DRY and observation are crowded in one
compartment and comparison appears to
be trying to expand its domain. If the
man is not lunatic when he RECEIVERS the
science of phrenology win receive a hard
blow.
He has great faith in the ability of DR..
Marks, but is afraid that the physician
will, for experimental purposes, merely
make demon or some unnatural monster
OF him. He fancies that he is already q
different man. Considering the condition
in which he came to the hospital. he
ought to be sincerely thankful if medical
science had changed him into a good, self
respecting dog But human nature is
jealousy tenacious of It's identity, and
| Whiteford is constantly implOring DR.
Marks that if he does decide that old
Whiteford was of no use, to make one
which just will be at least as good as the
original Dr. Marks admits that he has
not mastered all the fine points of MAX
ing a new man, but vows that if his first
effort was a being like Whiteford he
would never make another, and that it
would drive him crazy. When DR. Marks
tells him that he cannot change him into
another man the patient argues with
singular logic that DR.. Marks is con-
stantly taking taking men apart, and if
he cannotlput one together again he must
be very dull sort of fellow He also
points hisnew skull and says thatany man
that can make head can make a man,
Whiteford viii recover, but at present
he is all mixed up as to who he is, or
what sort Of a man ne is. At times he
imagines that DIR. Marks has q high
ideal of manhood and that he has re-
generated him into the sort of man that
he admires. At these times he is very
circumspeCt in his demeanor and regrets
that he cannot live up to to the standard
At other times he. thinks that he DR..
Marks has changed him into a monster
Such n belief is a more rational one as
the change would not be great one and
his past life cOnvinces him that he can
easily carry out the programme the ply
stefan has marked out for him to perfec-
tion. At other times he is eagerly solic-
itous that he should be made into
new man. He says he don't care who he
is, just so he is not Whiteford.