The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-20
A PHREN0LOGICAL CASE.
"Professor Fulcrum. I believe"

brain and have made some remark.
able discoveries.N t#
81 have simply been building on the
scant knowledge held by our grand
parents. II 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,
professor II Is you who have made
this last discovery. How did you do
it?' fE
"Viyisection. Our ancestors found
difficulty in getting consent TO exper.
iment on animals Now, with some
400 100000 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 as we'll, for ! now can
make an honest man of a rogue"
"By what means?'
"Trepanning. For instance know
the exact spot in the brain that pro
duces kleptomania | cut away a bit
of the skull and find an abnormal de.
velopment of the brain directly under
1t. This | cut away, and the patient
has no more desire to steal"
Can you turn hate 10 love, or vice
versa?"
NO. but can destroy either the
one Or the other"
Now we are getting down to the
object of my visit My son is in love
with a girl whom ! do not wish him to
marry Can you destroy his love for
herr"
yes"
Recent development in microscopy
has shown that each sensation has
minute corrugation on the brain. On
"A certain point In your sons brain will
be found little protuberance com
posed of these minute corrugations
II this protuberance is removed the
love is killed"
Forever"
Not necessarily. Another opera.
tion Is required TO prevent its re.
turn. | must cut away a certain tiny
| particle in the bump of memory for
tnaJ particular girl.
very well. professor. | viii bring
my son to you at once. He is waiting
without" at.
| 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 shows into a room.
where an anasthetlc gas was turned
on. When he was unconscious he
was placed on a table and the opera
ton performed On coming to his
senses he found his head bandaged
and was told that .. burglar had shot
him, making two bullet ho'ss in the
brain. He was to he kept quiet till
the wounds healed.
"Who the dickens is this Amanda
Brown who is sending me fiOwers?"
he asked one morning during con.
valescence.
His father, who heard the remark
and hoped that he would marry the
donor. was delighted. He rushed off
10 Prof Fulcrum to tell him that the
operation had been eminently sue
cessful.
Now, professor" he said, there Is
u girl wish my son to marry. Can
YOU make him love her?"
Certainly not"
"Are you sure? She loves him, and
she Is immensely rich"
81 am perfectly sure. cannot
create. can only destroy"
Jennie Carr, who had been removed
from Walter Higgins memory, in
sisted on seeing him as soon as It was
safe for him to undergo the excite
J ment of he meeting. Mr.. Higgins
senior, curious to know If his son
would remember her on seeing her
granted permission at once.
| "Oh, Walter" she said plaintlyely
2. I'm so zorry!"
Let me see" said Walter, looking
at her scrutiniZingly. $50 many peo
pie have called to see me. Where
have | met you?'
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. Hlg
gins rushed into Prof Fulcrum'
workroom in rage.
"You have swlndled mel" he cried
"How sO?"
"My son has married the girl after
ALL"
"Well?"
you said you could guard against
his love for her returning by destroy
ing his memory of her. His love ha!
returned. Lie has married her"
"It has not returned, II he loves
her It is a new love, not the old one.
at is certainly not a new one, fol
my son has had nothing to do with
her since you operated on him"
81 don't believe II, My knowledge
is based on long experiment and Il
exact, Find out what has talSeI
place between the couple since you
sons recovery and YOU will prove m,
position"
MIR, Higgins departed and in a few
days sent Prof. Fulcrum the followin,