The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21


parenr and transferred 1t to the nasal cavity to
supply omission of nature with never cut
the outside skin surface indicate that the hand Of
had supplied what nature failed to furnish in
the original fashioning He has been able to remodel
in accordance with a widely different racial
type but he insists that the Fictitious character OF
the new always apparent He declares that his
method is better suited to the correction OF noses
accidentally deformed by nature misshapen than
to the obiteration OF the badges OF ethnic origin
On the afternoon of February 3, 1909, entire
scalp grated the head of Frauein Gabille
Fritsch whose own scalp had been torn off in ma
chine in Prague. The operation was performed by
Professor Kukula of Vienna, and fewer than
600 persons called at the Prague hospital to offer
their skin for transpanting TO the victim. Finally
taken from the soles of the feet of each girl and
laid on the scalp of the patient noted surgeon IS
"sewed in by the Partisan pioneers in the hope of
storing the girls hair. The tighness OF the scalp
covering WILL OF course, make this an extremely deli
cate and troublesome task, and it may yield no re-
suits whatever.
Work of school surgeons and OF the experts labor
ing in conjunction with Juvenile courts and houses
of correction in which removal of adenoid growth
the correction of defective vision have eliminated
criminal tendencies from children, too well known
and OF too common occurrence to give them extended
space in the present article.
Such operations were more generally performed in
Phladephias corrective institutions than in any other
American city. Here, in brief is typical case:
Case of Boy
Until he years old boy of Nazareth,
Northampton county Pa, normal, healthy and
head and He washed the blood from his head
and said nothing about the accident From that day,
however, he a different boy He fought every
boy he knew played dangerous pranks and developed
mania for setting fires. He sent to the Medico-
Chirurgical college in Philadelphia There he tried
to asphyxiate nine children in the ward with him.
An examination of the boys head made by DIR.
Ernest Lapace, since decorated by the French gov
ernment for his services to surgical science he
found that there apparent pressure on the brain
at the point that has became intimately connected
with the desire to see fire and create it. Arrange
IL e.
"Why are you so bad?" DR.. Laplace asked the boy.
"Tve got stone in my head" said the boy. laugh
ing.
Trephining resulted in the removal of circular
"button'-bone-from the skull about an inch and a
quarter in diameter. With the exterior opened DIR.
Lapace removed from the interior other pieces OF
bone That was the extent of the operation. The
pressure the brain was removed In time the skull
where the button" had been removed
Il don't feel like being bad, said the boy when
he left the hospital And since that time he has been
normal and we'll behaved.
S"Cutting out the bad spots was the term OF ridi-
cule outsiders applied to these operations for while
And then they stopped !ong enough to be convinced
of the efficacy of them The juvenile court and the
society to protect children from cruelty indorsed
and fostered this new school OF surgery. AT the
offices of the latter institution as many 80
operations were performed in week The percent
age of restorations normal faculties and traits
remarkably large The doctors who were performing
the operations interested in them DR. 5
Weir Mitchell, author and neurologist; DIR. w. NJ l.
COpin, time director OF health and charities
Philadelphia and now mead OF JenerSOn mcdical cOl-
lege and Jefferson hospital; Dr. Francis K. Dercum,
renowned specialist; DR.. A c. Abbott of the
bureau of health; DR.. Herbert L. Northrup, noted
anatomist and surgeon of Hahnemann college and
hospital; DR.. w. W. Hawke specialist alienist of
Blockey, which is the Philadelphia general hospital
under its more or less local name The clinics drew
noted visitors from other American cities and from
abroad.
Iocalization of functions in certain portions of the
brain is adhered to by overwhelming preponder-
of present day scientists So it is, too, with
ocalization of sensation. 1t follows logically that
what is called crime and evil are nothing more than
an abnormal combination of function and sensation,
better, perhaps, abnormality of function that
produces an abnormality of sensation.
But how to localize how to put ones finger the
diseased part of the brain that one to lie,
another to steal. another desire to kill, another to
problem that science faced from the time man first
learned that the brain the seat of thought and ac
ton and first gained courage probe into its secrets
That this development of science was attained first
in Philadelphia good augury for its thorough
and beneficial properties, for Philadelphia is
conservative and its surgeons so, a
class, than the city is whole Brain surgery, as
part of the new surgery that we have dcvel-
oped in a decade is generaly-and daily-practiced
in almost all of cities and is no longer front
page wonder TO confront at breakfast under
scare" heads of our newspaper.
OF incidents, with and addresses. there are
multitude and the scope of them is both amazing
and inspiring. 1t IS now common feat to make
morally defective person into person of high prin-
ciples-regeneraton by the knife, it wcre-just
skill and daring with the knife are rernedying i'll
shapen forms and supplying new organs for those
that have been lost through disease or accident