The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-28
SURGEONS SCALPELS
CONTROL MANS MIND
MEMORY RESTORED TO VICTIM
OF ACCIDENT, AND AGAIN
BLOTTED BY OPERATION.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.-One of
the most remarkable surgical opera
tions on record was performed by Drs
Cannabray and Meletone of New
York and Cincinnati, respectively, last
week on George T. Wavelaid, OF
Dannavane.
The youth of Mr.. Wavelaid up to
the age of 21 years was wild and
reckless one, and by the time he was
old enough to vote he was veteran
in crime, steeped to the lips in sin
and evil-doing and confirmed and
professed infidel.
Two months after his twenty-first
birthday he was the victim of severe
accident that so affected his brain as
to make him utterly forget ali that he
had ever known and to become a
child again as to his mental develop
ment, although his general health
was as good as ever.
Beginning as children do with
their alphabet and primers, Mr.. Wave
laid started in once more to learn
mans wisdom over again, and with
such success that by the time he was
2S years old he was as we'll Informed
on all subjects as most men of good
general education are and differed
in no maner from normal, average
man, except that he had absolutely
no memory whatever of any OF the
events of his life prior to the occur
renee of the accident.
The influences that had been
thrown around him, however, in this
second boyhood had been of the very
best, and he was model of deport-
ment and morals in every way, and
especially devout and earnest
Christian.
He was, however endowed with as
much curiosity as men usually are
and could not get over the wish that
his past life might in some way be
opened up to him and that the men,
Ories and impressions of the first
twenty-one years that he had lived
might have the seal taken from them
and be opened to his mental vision
In pursuance of this wish he took
| the advice of Drs. Cannabray and
Meletone on the subject, and they,
after careful examination, Informed
| him that in their opinion there was
a portion of his skull that had been
crushed in and was resting upon the
brain, and that this condition was the
cause of his loss of memory.
He then insisted upon an operation
| being performed, and the diagnosis
| was found to be correct, and the de-
| pressed portion of the skull was lift
ed, with the wonderful result that the
| intellect, brain power, and memory,
| Just as he had possessed them at the
time of the accident were all instant
| ly restored in full force, and he at
once became just the man mentally
| that he had been at that time. But,
stranger still, none of the character
| istics of the mental and spiritual sides
of his nature that he had since ac-
quired was lost lessened or changed
| in the least, and he instantly became
as it were, two men, with two minds
and two souls, warning and struggling
| together in one stalwart human brain
and body; a gentleman and a liber-
tine, professed and consistent
| Christian and jeering and sarcastic
| infidel; kind and tender friend and
| relative and a ruthless and domineer-
| ing oppressor of all within his power.
The inevitable result soon showed
unmistakable signs of its coming,
and under the terrible strain put
| upon III 1nc1p1enI madness was pldlnly
affecting his brain.
With all speed the great surgeons
were again summoned, and with the
| utmost skill and care they again
opened the skull, and by the aid of
cunningly devised plate of gold re-
stored the pressure upon the brain
as it had been prior to the operation,
| and thus banished forever from the
life of Mr.. Wavelaid the memory,
habits, impulses and evil ways of the
first twenty-one years of his exist
ence and restored him to the better
manhood that had crowned, and
again crowns his later days.