The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02

trance, Mrs. Allen asked him whether or
| not she had eaten her dinner. 7 think
| SO, said Leo. Your stomach looks as
though 1t were filed with dishwater
| (chyme).'
"One Of the strongest and at the same
| time most emphatic experiments that Leo
has ever performed was that of the case
| OF Mrs. Randall. In the month of Feb
ruary last while visiting in Boston
brought my boy to see Dr. F. H. Burt.
| an old medical friend of mine who Is
| the head Of Burt's hospital, on Massa-
| chusetts avenue. DR.. Burt was already
acquainted with Leo's peculiarities. and
we were, II l remember, talking about
them when the matron of the establish
| ment Mrs. Randall, entered the office
me doctor had spoken to her Of Leo
Brett, and she was anxious to test HIM
she was then fine figure of a woman
stout, well set up and apparently in the
best OF health. with the exception of a
somewhat troublesome cough. Dr. Burt
| introduced Leo to her, and she said tn
MIN, DO you think you could tell what
| is the matter with me-? Yes I think So
| said the boy hypnotized him and told
| him to examine her! Papa said the boy,
aIter minute, can see a great big
| sore In her lungs, Just where the two are
| Joined together and around 1t it looks
| as though 1T had been bleeding That was
| enough for Mrs. Randall She left the
| office in a hurry, and when she had gone
! the doctor told me that she had had two
hemorrhages within week, although she
| made little of them. That was in Feb
ruary. On June 1 I had received a note
| from DR.. Burt telling me that Mrs Ran
| dali had just died from hasty consump-
| ton.
THE next experiment IS perhaps at
| once the most interesting and convincing
OF any Of which Leo has taken a part.
cannot give you the name Of the patient
she Is one Of my own private patients
and am well acquainted with her family.
| Although l do not make her name public.
do not wish it to be understood that
she is not willing to substantiate my
statements. If necessary, she will come
| forward to back me up.
1.-The patient in question is an elderly
| lady of perhaps sixty years of age She
| came to me from out of town to have
her case diagnosed. She had been TO
many doctors, and they had almost
unanimously pronounced her disease to
| be cancer of the liver. OF course this
meant certain death; and very painful
one. 1 refused to declare my diagnosis
until Leo had been called into my study
to aid. Leo said I, I want you to COM
pare this lady's liver with mine In
hardly a minute the boy answered. to
| quote his own words, Why, papa her
! liver is much larger than yours. Besides
| yours is smooth, while hers is all covered
/ with punches like hubby ice. Yours is
brown, while hers is brown all streaked
with white, like fancy chocolate cake. Tho
white stuff looks to me like candle
J grease.
THAT was sufficient. The correct source
| of her trouble had been shown to me. She
| was suffering from amyloid degeneration
| of the liver, which, while dangerous is
| distinctly not cancer. This notwithstand-
| ing the diagnoses Of all the other physi-
clans she had visited L am now treating
this patient for the above disease, and II
| has at least made no progress. Had Il
! been a case of cancer of the liver she
would have been dead long ago.
Just one more before I close. There
came to me in September, 1898, married
/ lady Of about thirty-f1ve, suffering from
| what I was convinced was valvular dis
! ease of the heart. So far as a physician
| can I examined her with the stethoscope
| and her condition appeared to me to be
| alarming; so much so, in fact, that was
| at loss to understand how she managed
| to be alive at all. To obtain clear idea,
| with the patients consent 1 called Leo
| into the consultation room and told him
| to examine the lady's heart In q minute
| he said: I can see her heart and the
| valves. One of them opens slowly as
! though 1t were stiff and tired. Some
| times 1t shuts, and sometimes it does not.
| When it don't the blood runs back I
asked him, Why, how many valves are
| you looking at?' Three of course was
his reply; the other two are all right
This testimony" concluded the doctor,
fought to be enough to convince any one
of the boys abnormal gifts. AS 1 said be-
fore, 1 do not claim the boys peculiar
| ability supernatural. I do not believe
in the supernatural But do say that
they are supern0rmal."
Doctor" said the correspondent will
al 10
whether there is anything the matter
with me or not?"
ut is strictly against my rule" said
the doctor, but perhaps it may serve a
useful purpose in the end. Leo, am
going to ask you to examine this gem
tleman. Now, close your eyes. "a min
ute elapsed.) Now, open them. Look at
him and tell me what you see'
The boy was standing, leaning on the
| back of a chair with a serious, eager
| sort of expression on his face. While he
appeared to be entirely conscious of
others in the room, his fixed, concen-
| trated attention was centered on the
Journal man. Slowly he began to speak
| in his natural voice. at see nothing at
| all the matter with him, but think there
| has been something the matter with one
of his arms a long time ago. It's the
right one. All, now see more clearly
| las the sun shone out from behind a
| cloud. It has been broken in two places |
at the wrist. And, besides, the muscles
| and cords Iok as though they had been
wrenched from where they ought to have
been, and they look to me as though they
! had never gone back again. The place |
| where the break was in the top of the !
| wrist looks as If the bones had been
| grown into one. It's funny sort of a
! looking arm, anyway.
! snapl went the Doctors fingers, and the
| boy came to his normal senses in sec !
| ond. He looked rather frightened, as
| though he had been doing something he
| ought not to; but this expression only
lasted a minute. In another minute he
| was out in the yard and away on his BIZ
cycle.
For the benefit of your readers, the |
| correspondent will explain that, fifteen |
years ago. when a schoolboy, his right |
arm was broken in two places at the |
wrist precisely as Leo Brett described |
It, The muscles and cords were also |
wrenched and bruised, and the swelling |
never entirely subsidized, so that the boys |
further description of the way that the !
arm looked was microscopic in it's COM |
| pleteness Your correspondent viii also
add that never in his life up to today |.
| had he ever met DR.. Brett and his boy |
Leo. Again, he was separated from the |
boy by about seven feet. He wore his !
ordinary clothing, coat, linen and under |
wear, so that it was impossible for the |
! boy to have in any way seen the arm.
Doctor, this is all very wonderful.