Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-05-13
A PSYCHOLOGICAL CASE.

Professor Fulcrum, believe"
"At your service, SIR
Il understand that You have been
for long while close student of the
brain and have made some remark
able discoveries"
Il have simply been building on the
scant knowledge held by our 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.
professor 1t is you who have made
this last discovery. How did you do
it,"
"Vivisection. Our ancestors found
difficulty in getting consent to exper-
iment on animals. Now, with some
400, 000, 900 of people, life is so cheap
that we can operate on human beings.
l am indebted to malefactOrs for my
discoveries. And malefactors are in
debted to me as well, for l now can
make an honest man of rogue.
by what means?"
Trepanning. For instance, l know
the exact spot in the brain that pro-
duces kleptomania. cut away bit
of the skull and find an abnormal de-
velopment. of the brain directly under
it. This cut away, and the patient
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"
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"
eyes"
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.
If this protuberance is removed the
love is killed"
Forever"
Not necessarily. Another opera.
ton is required to prevent it's re-
turn. must cut away certain tiny
particle in the bump of memory for
that particular girl
Every well, professor l will bring
my son to you at once. He is waiting
without"
Professor Fulcrrm consented only
on the payment of an i'm nense fee
and guaranty of l.. demnity III c.,se the
son claimed da ..ges. Then the
young man was shown into a room,
where an .anasthetic gas was turned
on When he was unconscious he
was placed on a table and the opera
ton pei formed On coming to his
senses he found ais head bandaged
and was told that a burglar had shot
him, making two Juliet holes in the
brain. He was to be kept quiet till
the wounds healed
"Who the dickens is this Amanda
Brown who is sending me fowers?''
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 oft
to Prof Fulcrum to tell him that the
operation had been eminently sue
cessful.
Nov, professor" he said, there is
a girl l wish my son to marry. Can
you make him love herr"
Certainly not
"Are you sure? She loves him, and
she is immensely rich
Il am perfectly sure. l 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
ment OF. the meeting. Mr.. Higgins,
senior, curious to know if his son
would remember her ON seeing her,
granted permission at once.
ooh. Walter" she said plaintively,
Tim SO eorry!"
Let me see," said Walter, looking
at her scrutinizingly. So many peo-
pie have called to see me- Where
have l 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 Prof Fulcrum's
worl1room in rage.
'You have swindled 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 has
returned. He has married her."
1T has not returned. If he loves
her it is new love, not the old one."
at is certainly not new one, for
my son has had nothing to do with
her since you operated on him.
81 don't believe it,. My knowledge
is based on long experiment and is
exact Find out what has taken
place between the couple since your
sons recovery and you will prove my
position
Mr.. Higgins departed and in few
days sent Prof. Fulcrum the following
confession signed by his sons wife:
Il always noticed that the Higgins
family were opposed 20 me and no.
ticed that they were especially
pleased when I was blotted from Wal
ter's memory. I had won him once
despite their opposition and resolved
to do SO again, keeping my effort a
secret from them. began at the
beginning in my own way pledging
him not to let him family know of his
meetings with me; then when had
won him l married him clandestinely
before they could interfere. Oscar
Cox.