Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-08-26

mad been ,bums evef since bought him
from . Kongo trader down ON q South
street wharf. He was little bcggar then,
but quite like little man, we used to kny.
When got 10 drinking laudanum, got
70 giving n 20 Bob for fun, and when
out into the poor beasts brain, M fondly
imagined, In tho interests Of science he
was ON my table clean stupc1ed from u
dose had wantonly persuaded him 70 take.
1--WE had boon talking brain grating ut
the clinic, W---n, SIS and ], and were
just about to put away our working clothes
and go home when there came knock at
the door, and without waiting 10 be asked
In walked Mary, the match girl. You
know she has been u familiar figure about
the college for years and was considered
sort OF privileged character. Do you know
why she has disappcarcdY will toll you.
VII and SIS had already taken of
their aprons and were discussing how we
should get Bob home when Mary, who had
ADVANCED toward us with her basket on
her arm, suddenly saw him lying across
the operating table and sprang backward
with an exclamation Of fright.
1T was her first-and last--view Of
Bob. As she jumped back her feet struck
against tho table leg and she fell sprawl
ing toward the stationary iron washstapd.
AS she lay motionless we ran 10 help her
and picked her up. But she seemed quite
limp, and, when we lighted the gas, wo
found blood ON our hands. Her head had
come In contact with tho edge Of the stand,
and compound fracture Of tho parictal
bones OF the skull was tho result, the force
OF the blow having been 80 severe as to
depress the fractured bone TO an alarming
extent.
"We laid her on tho table and set TO
work at once to raise and cut away the
depressed bone. A button OF tho brain
substance followed the trephine, protrud-
Ing from the opening and showing such
congestion that we hastily cut away "a
larger area Of the bone and found that the
brain itself had been injured severely, and
one or two OF the upper parietal convolu-
tions were bleeding We had moro on our
hands now than we had ever dreamed, but
we couldn't stop. There was no time to
call for assistance. A Jagged piece Of bone
had almost severed considerable portion
OF that conformation which controls the
motor nerves OF tho right side. / proposed
that we cut the injured portion Of the
brain away, and nobody dared oppose the
audacious suggestion.
"Like flash as we bent over the girls
unconscious FORM 1t camo to my mind
that now had at hand the long coveted
opportunity to try brain graft. Where
was the other subjectf Why, Bob, stretched
there himself unconscious, ready for the
sacrifice. left the two others bending
over Mary, cleansing the wound and pre-
pairing the sutures, and almost as quick as
had come the thought followed the deed.
I opened Bob's skull and, laying bare
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removed by few deft strokes enough to
replace what had been cut away from the
brain of the match girl.
my brain was on fire with the craze to
try great surgical experiment. Hot from
the skull OF the chimpanzee the severed
brain matter was skillfully placed in posi-
ton in the skull OF the girl, and when, in
half an hour, q plate had been superim-
posed and the scalp replaced and sewed
over the drainage tube the girl positively
seemed to be at ease 1t wasn't any trou-
BILE to have her removed across the street
to the hospital. And when we said she
had fallen and hurt her head and that we
had dressed the wound there was nobody
to ask any awkward questions.
"S--s and WI took turns about
visiting her ward for awhile, but there
never seemed to be any obstacle to her
speedy recovery. She was out on the
street again in two months. One day
when she was we'll enough to talk noticed
rs stood with WI by her cot that she
raised her right arm toward her mouth
and rolled her eyes slightly, as If in mock
cry of gesture of WIS. You know
he has slight attack of st. Vitus' dance
at times. He didn't notice it, but did
and was thrilled with an awful interest as
remembered Bob.
"After that watched with morbid ca
gerness for reappearance of this symptom.
1t never failed to show itself. When no
one else was present, l permitted her, she,
poor thing, all the time unconscious, to
initiate my gestures as she chose. The
nurse whispered to mo that she thought
poor Mary would never be herself again
She thought she was crazy
"But when Mary did begin to talk at
last she conversed nationally. It was only
when her eyes rested on me that she SEEM
ed smitten by an uncomfortable impulse
to initiate the movements of my right hand
and at last my intonation even. was
Mortified and conscience stricken, and l
left town. When returned, she had been
discharged from the hospital, and no one
knew what had become Of her.
II saw her this afternoon In an Avenue
B street car. The conductor had his hand
extended for her fare, and she was in the
act Of taking 1t from her purse when her
eyes encountered mine. A change in
stantly came over her demeanor. With
horrible, exact reproduction Of the mans
voice and gait she rose from her seat, and
with her eyes fixed on mine-they seemed
to burn into my brain-she walked toward
me, ringing all the time on an imaginary
bellpunch, and leaning over me asked, all
the while with the conductors hard voice,
Fare, please, and who will pay for poor
Bob?'
"Do you wonder that rushed from the
car like mailman, and that am now
about to do madman's deedp
"WALTER.
The surgeon who now has the letter
refused to Hdvance an opinion on the
daring experiment or to give further light