The evening world., 1904-08-06
Wound Extends from One Side
OF the Head 10 the Other and
Man Who Attempted Suicide
Is Getting Well.
HAS FULL CONTROL
OF HIS FIVE SENSES.
Only Noticeable Change Is He
No Longer Cares for Flowers
and His Love Of Beauty May
Be Destroyed.

Se'N Wv 80 MIS- DT1ln
man Is lying In the Newark City Hos.
pital counting the days until he 10 dis
charsed-cured.
The man Is Frederick Book, Ard
nfty-eisht years. His case is one OF
the most remarkable In the annals Of
surgery.
Although the bullet which Rock nred
INTO his own head In an attempt at
suicide pentrated both lobes OF the
brain. his mental faculties are not af-
fected. nor Is his eyesight, and the
doctors at the hospital all say the re-
covery OF the man Is little less than q
miracle.
On July II, Book, who kept a cigar
store on Warren street. Newark. shot
himself with a .5s-calibre revolver. The
bullet. which entered the right temple,
ploushed through the brain, and was
FOUND Just under the skin at a point
about an inch and a half below the
left temple.
Believed He Would DIE.
When the would.be suicide was
brought to the hospital the surgeons
believed he would die in a few hours,
and great was their establishment to
see him improve.
Tho man, after the wound was
dressed. regained con sclousness, and
has been rational ever since. and 80
satisfactory Is his condition that II
n thought he will be discharged In q
short time.
The remarkable case, which stands
practically alone In medical records,
n without precedent on account Of
the patients faculties being intact,
for the frontal lobe, through which
the bullet passed, contains the seats
\ OF the mental faculties and OF sight
and hearing. The wound is one-quar-
ter OF an inch In diameter. and al
though the bullet ploughed through
the brain. no gray matter was forced
out.
The treatment the remarkable pa
dent receives Is comparatively simple,
a. the attending physicians say there
In practically nothing to do except
endeavor to prevent blood poisoning
ana allow the wound to heal.
AZ each temple, where the bullet
mace us entrance and cam out. IN.
wound Is kept packed with antl,ep.
tic and absorbent cotton and medl-
cines' and % long as It Is drained
properly the patients condition Ia IA.
garded as excellent. :"
SO far" said Supt. Talbot. az IN.
newark City Hospital, the drainage OF
tne w"urd has been perfect, and IL has
= : great dea TO dc with the mans
The fac! that Book has surprised IN,
~ py MS Improvement, and BY his re-
tanning MS mental powers and his eve
ngnt can only be attributed 10 the re-
markable fact that the bullet just bare
srafea me parts o. the brain which
W Q wonder" ~
unknown Part of Brain.
The part OF the brain through which
q bullet directly passed, say the doc.
tors, Is the region whose exact func.
tons have not yet been definitely traced
by science. While the mental region
n the light and hearing Is located
tlere, thtfe l. a part OF the frontal Ioha
which has not been satisfactorily ex.
Since Book has escaped with M M.
uGeable bad results the surgeons aps
wondering Just what specific part i'm
n economy Of the human system this
region plays. As the nervous system
az vel as the mental. Is controlled
from the frontal lobe, Il seems sev
the doctors, strange that Book Shows
no traces OF acute nervOEness, A faInt
suggestion OF a difference In the IN mural
man was mentioned by me al
suicioes MIC, VINO brought him a bou-
Book was p~assionately fond OF flowers
he loved them more than anything else
and seemed to delight In their beauiy
Now he does not even notice than
This fact has given rise to the SUP
position that the bullet may have de-
suoyed the injured mans sense OF
beauty. That the bullet has penetrated
the functions which controls that sixth
sense, as some psychologists term IT.
aestheticism-b a debated question, IL
this can be ascertained an interesting
fact In psycho-patholosy win be estab-
tshed.
Il may be that the varied shade, and
suotls mental characteristics may have
their functions here.
In the mean time Book lies IN his
cot with his head resting on an orlI.
nary pillow and making rapid strides
toward complete recovery. When he
walks out OF the hospital In the noe.
session OF all his faculties no viii bs
regarded a. the most remarkable patient
ever treated In the institution. Had the
wound been a little TO the rear Book
would never have walked from the hos
pttal, a. the functions OF motion CON
trolling the leg and arm would nave
been destroyed.
As II u. the bullet In It's mysterious
path through the mans brain has left
II, 20 far as can be a~scertalned, "as
good as before and the astounding
and remarkable recovery OF a man with
q quarter OF an inch bullet holo clear
through his brain will cause Books
name 10 be handed down In the history
Of wonderful and unprecedented surgi.
ca, cases.