The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-10-26
OPERATION CHANGES
MANS CHARACTER
Accident at 81 Years Blots
Out all Previous Recol-
lection.
After Years IF Second Boy
hood First Was Restored
by Operation.

BALTIMORE, Md.,-One of the most
remarkable surgical operations on rec
ord was performed by Drs Cannabray
and Meletone of New York and Gin
03nnat1, respectively, last week on
George T. Wavelaid of Dannavane.
The youth Of Mr.. Wavelaid up to the
age of 21 years was a wild and reck-
less one. and by the time he was old
enough to vote he was already vet
eran In crime, stepped to the lips in
sin and ovildoing. and a confirmed and
professed lnf1del.
Two months after his twenty-first
birthday he was the victim of a severe
accident that so affected his brain as
to make him utterly forget all that he
had ever known and to become child
again as to his mental development,
although mis- general health was al
good as ever.
Begins With Alphabet.
Beginning as children do with their
alphabet and primers. Mr.. Wavelaid
started in once more to learn a mans
wisdom over again, and with such sue
cess 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 man.
ner from a normal, average man, ex-
cept that he mad absolutely no men,
cry whatever of any of the events Of
his life prior to the occurance 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 g model, OF department and
morals N, every way and especially
a-dexouts sss
f4e-swzA however, eii1UKed With 90
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 memories and
impressions Of the first twenty one
the seal taken from them and be
be opened to his mental vision.
Advise Of Physicians.
In pursuance Of this wish he took
the advise Of Drs. .Cannabray and
Meletone on the subject and they, at
ter a careful examination. informed
him that in their opinion there was a
portion Of his skull that mad 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 lifted,
with the wonderful result that the in
tellect, brain power, and memory, Just
az ne had possessed them at the time of
the accident we're all instantly re-
stored in full force, and ne as once
became just the man mentally that he
had been at that time. But. stranger
still. none Of the characteristics of the
mental and spiritual sides of his ma
ture that he had since acquired was
lost, lessened, or changed in the least,
and ne instantly became, as it were,
two men, with two minds and two
souls, warning and struggling toget-
her in one stalwart human brain and
body; a gentleman and a libertine q
prefessed and consistant Christian and
jeering and sarcastic infidel; a kind
and tender friend and relative and q
ruthless and domineering oppressor OF
all within his power. The inevitable
result soon showed unmistakable signs
Of It's coming. and under the terrible
strain put upon 1t incipient madness
was plainly affecting his brain.
With all speed the great surgeons
were again summoned, and with the
utmost skill and care the again opened
the skull, and the aid Of a cunning
ly devised plate Of gold restored the
pressure upon the brain as it had
been, prior to the operation, and thus
banished forever from the life Of Mr.
Wavelaid the memor, habits, impulses
and evil ways of the first twenty-one
years of his existence and restored
him to the better manhood that had
crowned, and again crowns, mis- later
days.