Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-11-13
A PSYCHOLOGICAL
CASE OF 1899.
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81 understand that you have been
brain and have made some remarkable
discoveries"
81 have simply been building on the
scant knowledge held by u grand
parents. 1t has been reserved for US
fin de steele people to point out the
exact spot on the brain that directs
any special condition"
"Your modesty Is wasted on me, pro-
fessor. 1t is you who have made this
last discovery. How did you do it?"
"yivisection. Our ancestors found
difficulty in getting consent to expert
ment on animals. Now, with some
400, 100000 of people, life Is so cheap
hat we can operate on human beings.
1 am indebted to malefactors for my
discoveries. And malefactors are in
debted to me as well, for l can now
make an honest man of a rogue"
"By what means?"
"T%repanning. For instance, I know
the exact spot In the brain that pro-
duces kleptomania. l cut away a bit
of the skull and find an abnormal
development of the brain directly I'M
der it. This 1 cut away, and the pa
tient has no more desire to steal"
"Can you turn hate to love, or vice
versa?"
mo, but 1 can destroy either the one
or the other"
Nov we are getting down to the
object of my visit. My son is in love
with a girl whom 1 do not wish him
to marry. Can you destroy his love
for her?'
"Yes.'
"How?"
Recent development in microscopy
has shown us hat each sensation has
a minute corrugation on the brain. On
a certain point in your sons brain will
be found a little protuberance COM
posed OF these minute corrugations.
If this protuberance is removed the
love is killed"
"Forever?'
mot necessarily. Another operation
is required to prevent its return. 1
must cut way a certain tiny particle
in the bump Of memory for that par
ticular girl"
every well, professor. I will bring
my son to you at once. He is waiting
without"
Professor Fulcrum consented only on
the payment of an immense fee and
guaranty of indemnity in case the son
claimed damages. Then the young
man was shown into a room, where
an anaesthetic gas was turned on.
When he was unconscious he was
placed on a table and the operation
performed. On coming to his senses
he found his head bandaged and was
T roId-that a burglar had shot him, max
ing two bullet holes in the brain. He
was to be kept quiet till the wounds
healed. He was removed to his home.
"Who the dickens is this Amanda
Brown who is sending me fowers?"
he asked one morning during conva
lescence.
His father, who heard the remark
and hoped that he would marry the
donor, was delighted. He rushed off
to Professor Fulcrum to tell him thai
the operation had been eminently sue
cessful.
"Now, professor" he said, there is
a girl l wish my son to marry. Can
you make him love herY'
Certainly not"
"Are you sure? She loves him, and
she is immensely rich"
81 am perfectly sure. 1 cannot Gre
ate. I can only destroy"
Jennie Carr, who had been removed
from Walter Higgins memory, insisted
upon seeing him as soon as it was safe
for him to undergo the excitement Of
the meeting. Mr.. Higgins senior, curl
Gus to know if his son would remem-
Der her on seeing her, granted permits
sion at once.
"Oh, Walter" she said plaintively,
"I'm so sorryi"
"Let me see," said Walter, looking at
her scrutinizingly. $50 many people
have called to see me. Where have
met your"
This was enough for Mr.. Higgins
senior. He took the girl away and
told her that the shooting had affected
his sons memory.
One day six months later Mr.. Hig-
gins rushed into Professor Fulcrum's
workroom in a rage.
you have swindled mer' he cried.
"How SOP"
"My son has married the girl, after
ALL"
"WelI?"
you said that you could guard
against his love for her returning by
destroying his memory of her. His
love has returned. He has married
her"
ut has not returned. If he loves
her it is a new love, not the old one"
at is certainly not a new. one, for
my son has had nothing to do with
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