Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

The strange case Of NJ. William
Grggs. whose memory wag recently -
stored after three years OF complete
oblivion. is the latest addition TO the
long string Of cases In which accidents
and blows have accomplished cures
which medical skill has been power
less to effect.
I, may be recalled that Griggs had
lost all memory OF mis- doings since
March. 1908 when he WAS second stew
ara on the clyde shipping company's
steamer Portland, and that no oh'y
regained his identity and mis- recollee-
ton OF the intervening period after ne
had been brutally attacked and kicked
by four men in The neighoorhood Oh
the Elephant and Castle
very curious story OF a similar kind
was told some time ago by Maj GEN
Maunderson of Tiverton, whose words
we quote: "In India, during the coiu
season OF 1915, some eight or ten ON
GERS quartered near Lahore were out
hawking rayine deer and obara, ana
during run after one Of the latter
Col. Sam Fishers horse Numbered over
some rough ground, and fell with him.
The only injury he received was loss
of memory He had fallen on MS headi
bur a good helmet had saved MS scalp
II was about midday. and we got ma
tive cot and he rested on II for some
three hours, without getting better. we
kent asking what he was doing TO nave
fallen. and so on, and, though III those
days I'm India the Crimean war was Ill
everybodv's thoughts, he could remem-
Der nothing about IT, AS the Gays are
short at that season In that part OF
India, and we were some IL miles from
Lahore. and no vehicle nor road mt 10
drive on to be had, It was suggested
that he should be carried home on the
oharpoy by coolies. This he objected TO-
and insisted on riding home. A Droth-
er sub. Worthineton, and | rode win
him By the time we got near Lahoro
IL was dusk, and his pony fell WIN
him over one of the heaps OF kuhkup'
collected al the side of the road foi
metalling IL. He again fell on his head,
unhurt, but his memory was completely
restored,
More remarkable still is the expert
ence OF william Allen, soldier III the
Union army, who was severely Woundeu
i'm the head at the battle Of Gettysburg
on July 2. 1863. Allen recovered from
his wound. but the machinery OF ms
brain appeared to have stopped. For
40 wears his mind was an absolute
blank so far as current events were
concerned; but he retained a vivid
memory of the Incidents of his life up
10 the fatal day In 1868, and could de-
scribe long dead men and trivial Incl
dents OF his young days with mar
velous fidelity. on July %, 1907, ne was
thrown from a horse on his head, and,
after recovering consciousness, found
his memory completely restored and
the long dark period of his life revealed
| to him in its smallest details.
A few years ago a woman VINO had
been for many years insane secured
possession of a revolver and fired a
couple OF bullets into her head. She
las taken TO a London hospital, where
the bullets, one of which had pene-
trated the brain, were removed. and
after a few days she recovered con-
seriousness she had regained complete
sanity, the injury to the brain having,
| I'm some mysterious way, restored her
| to soundness of mind.
More recently the fear of an accident
| was the means of restoring speech TO
| dumb man. Mr.. J. Moore Of Gosport
| had been dumb for four years when, on
| returning home one evening, his bicycle
, skidded. In his alarm he shouted, and
was so startled and surprised at hear
ing his voice that he called out agar
and again until he was convinced tina
his long-lost voice had come back t
him.
1t is not many years since a remark
able case of dumbness excited great IN
terest in medical circles in Germany
Twelve months earlier Bayarian cat
tie dearler had been kicked by horse
with the result that he completely los