The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-12
JOHN MOLANSKY TELLS HOW HE
BEGAN TO CHANGE TO AN
APE.
THE CASE PRONOUNCED HOPELESS
The Mans Eyes Have Become Further
Apart, Nose Widened, Forehead Low
cred and Lips Grown Thicker-He
is Doomed.

ANUi SNiNlNI any lCCOlu Is lnul VI JOuu
Molansky, who was presented by Dr. f.
D. Weise to clinic at the New York
College of Dentistry recently, says the
New York Recorder
MOlansky, who is cracker baker at
% Cherry street, is slowly turning from
man to monkey. To some physicians
this change is known as acromygalia, al
though there is considerable difference of
opinion on this point So rare is the COM
plant that they can not agree about it,
and while some claim that it is a record
ed disease, others maintain that it is not
disease at all, but physical form of
atavism, or retrogression from the
human to the primitive type of man.
However this may be, Il great physical
transformation is taking place in the
man. His face is gradually, but surely
changing from it's natural type until now
it shows Il striking resemblance to that
of an ape. The features, which were for
merly mild and Semitic, are now out of all
proportion. The jaw has become pro-
truding, and so enlarged that it is 'un-
dershot" to Il terrible degree, and the
forehead is perceptibly receding.
Besides the change i'll MOlansky's head
his hands and feet are growing larger
and longer, and now resemble those of
Il gigantic monkey.
1t is only recently that Molansky came
under the care of DR.. Weise, who is II
professor i'll the New York College of
Dentistry.
Previous to that he visited various
druggists and took the medicines for
headache that they prescribed. For a
time he got relief, but the headaches re-
turned with increased pain. So eXcrutiat-
ing was the agony of these headaches
that it was three years from the time
of their first coming on before Molansky
began to notice the gradual transforma-
ton of his features.
He was so Mortified when the fact
dawned upon him that, throwing aside
the druggists medicines, he visited Il
physician, who diagnosed the case as
nervous headaches, and prescribed fresh
medicine, with no better result.
From one doctor to another Molansky
went, until he fell into the hands of DR..
Weise, who at once perceived that the
man was suffering from some mysterious
ailment. After careful study of the
case the doctor became convinced that
it was acromygalia, the rarest and most
remarkable disease known to physi-
clans.
Calling in DR.. Allen Starr of % West
Forty-eighth street, who is Il professor of
the New York College of Physicians and
Surgeons, the two doctors re-eXamined
the wonderful case, and DR.. Starr finally
confirmed DR.. Weses opinion that the
man was suffering from acromygalia.
Molansky was then taken to the New
York College of Dentistry, and later to
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
at both of which places he was further
examined by the entire corps of learned
medical men, who pronounced it the
strangest case that ever came under
their notice.
Molansky was then sent to his home in
Bayard street, where he now is, await
ing the further consultations of the ply
sicians. The afflicted man lives on the
third floor of Il large tenement house, and
here he was found by Il Post-Dispatch re-
porter, sitting, with his head in his hands,
by the kitchen stove, picture of despair.
Slightly RAISING his head as he heard the
door open, Molansky glanced around
and, quickly covering his face
with his hands, tried to get
further into the corner. His wife, Il
pleasant-faced woman, and three chill
dren were around him trying to cheer
him up.
After some persuasion Molansky was
induced to turn his face to the visitor,
and finally to give a detailed account of
his sufferings. This is the story, as he
tells it:
Il am Polish jew and came to this
country many years ago, when young
man. | am now Al years old, and up to
six years ago was Il sound and healthy
man.
''In the fall of 1889 began to suffer
from headaches First they came in my
forehead, but gradually worked up to
the top of my head. At the commence
ment | had them about once every three
or four weeks, but did not pay any atten
ton to the pain, thinking it was brought
on by my being constantly near the fire.
am cracker maker by trade.
Gradually the headaches got worse
and worse. Instead of once Il month
had them every week. Still | didn't do
After time they got so bad
and come on so often that couldn't
stand them any longer, and went to II
drug store for something to ease the pain.
''The druggist told me that ! should
get out in the air more, and gave me
some pills, which for time helped me.
| got worse again, however,
and the virtue of the medicine seemed
to wear off, so l went to another drug
store and tried a different kind. This
seemed to do me more good than the first,
and for the next two years | went along
working every day and taking the medi
cines that the druggist gave me.
at last my headaches became so fire.
luent as to be unbearable. The medi-
,ine would do me no good. Not only the
.op of my head ached, but the sides and
back also.
~ then visited doctor, who gave me
,ome more medicine to ease the pain, |
saving that | would be all right by and |
ly. Believing, as he told me, that the |
headaches would eventually leave me, |
went on for two years more, taking his |
medicines and those of other doctors
hat had seen in the meantime.
.'Finally these medicines would not |
wen ease the pain, much less cure it. and
lost all hope.
.'NIy voice began to change. and my
eatures altered so that my friends could
lot recognize me. In the fall of 1894
vent to specialist and he gave me some
powders. but my teeth soon began to
rouble me. and | realized that was get
ing worse and worse. Last winter l
lad two other doctors, but their medi-
ines made me so sick that l had to stay
# home for three weeks.
my teeth by this time had become
10 bad that / had to 90 to dentist,
mt he said he could do nothing
.or me. as my jaw had grown
N misbapen. | could not eat solid
food. and gradually got weaker and weak
ar NV stomach suffered from lack of
food and | got so upset generally that
could not work my jaws. They seemed
as If thev belonged to some other person,
and did not fit my mouth.