The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-27
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. A PSYCHOLOGICAL
/. CASE or 1899.

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"At your service, sir"
81 understand that you have been
for a long while a close student of the
brain and have made some remarkable
discoveries"
81 have simply been building on the
scaut knowledge held by our grand
parents IL has been reserved FOR us
lin dc steele people TO point out the
exact spot on the brain that directs
any special condition"
Your modcsty is wasted on me, pro.
fessor 1t Is you who have made this
last discovery. How did you do re-"
"yivisection. Our ancestors found
difficulty In getting consent TO expert.
ment on animals. Now, with some
400,000OO0 Of people, life is so cheap
that we can operate on human beings.
am indebted TO malefactors for my
discoveries. And malefactors are In
debted to me rs well, for / can now
make IN honest man of a rogue"
by what ncansT'
''TrepanniDg. For instance, know
the exact spot In the brain that pro.
duces klcptomania. / cut away Bit
of the skull and find an abnormal
development of the brain directly un.
der 1t. This | cut away. and the pa.
tient has no more desire TO steal"
"Can you turn hate to love, or vice
ersal"
"No, but can destroy either the one
or the other"
snow we are getting down to the
object of my visit. My son Is In love
with n girl whom do not wish him
TO marry. Can you destroy his love
for herr"
"Yes."
"How?"
Recent development In microscopy
has shown us that each sensation has
q minute corrugation on the brain. On
certain point in your sons brain will
be found n little protuherapce com.
posed OF these minute corrugations.
IL this protuberance is removed the
love Is killed."
Forever
mot necessarily Another operation
Is required TO prevent its return.
must cut away n certain tiny particle
In the bump OF memory for that par
tlcular girl"
'Nery well, professor 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 room, where
an anaesthetlc gas was turned on
When he was unconscious he was
placed ON a table and the operation
performed. On coming to his senses
lie found his head bandaged and was
told that burglar had shot him, max
ing two bullet holes in the brain. He
was TO be kept quiet till the wounds
healed, lie was removed TO his home
"Who the dickens Is this Amanda
Brown who is sending me flowersT
he asked one morning during conva-
lescencc.
His father who heard the remark
and hoped that he would marry the
donor, was delighted He rushed of
TO Professor Fulcrum to tell him that
the operation had been eminently sue
cessful
"Now. professor" he said, "there Is
a girl ! wish my son TO marry. Can
you make him love hcryp
"Certalnly not"
"Are you sure? She loves him. and
she Is immensely rich"
~ am perfectly sure l cannot Gre
ate. ] can only destroy"
Jennie Carr, who had been removed
from Walter Higgins memory, insisted
upon seeing him as soon MS It was safe
for him TO undergo the excitement of
the meeting. Mr.. Higgins senior curl
ous to know IL his son would remem-
Der her on seeing her, granted permis-
sion at once.
"ob. Walter" she said plalntiyely,
I'm so sorTy!'
''Let mo see," said Walter, looking at
her scrutlnlzingly. 80 many people
have called to see me. Where have l
met youY"
This was enough for Mr.. Higgins
senior. He took the girl away AMI
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 n rage,
"You have swlndled .mep he cried.
How so?"
"My son has married the girl, after
nll."
"WellT
"Yon 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."
1T has not returned, If he loves
her IL Is a new love, not the On one"
ut IL certainly not a new one, for
my son hns had nothing TO do with
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