Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-22
RECEIVERS LOSS
OF HIS MEMORY
Remarkable Operation Per-
formed on James v. McC0r-
mick at N. Y. Hospital.
MOTHER is HAPPY AGAIN
For Several Years Local Man
Has Been Sadly Afflicted
Due to Accident.

After seven years of untold suffer
ing during part of time he was un-
able to recognize words or clearly re-
member different happenings even
though they had occurred only a
short time previous, James v. McCor-
mick, twenty-one year old son Of
James 7. Mccormick of "a Broad
street, through an operation per-
formed by DR.. j. Arthur Booth of
Roosevelt Hospital, New York, has
| been transformed into new man."
as his mother happily says, and his
mental faculties are now as clear as
they were before his awful accident
nearly seven years ago, which caused
the peculiar mslady of the brain.
The operation Is acknowledged as
unusual and involving the skill OF
an eminent specialist or alienist. DR..
William ID. Ramsay, who suggested
the mental expert, and DR.. Frank G.
Henry, of this city, witnessed the
phenomenal operation In modern sur
gerry. In the accident the young man
then only fourteen years Of age, had
the right side Of his skull fractured
Just over the cerebrum, for which he
was operated on at the city hospital.
He appeared to be in a normal con-
dition for year or SO after the oc-
curence, but after that time was at
f1icted with sinking spells, and grail
ually lost his mental faculties which
cause the recognition of words and
the clear remembering of passing
events. AS time went on his mental
malady grew worse, during which
time these mental faculties almost
entirely went into oblivion. Mrs. Nc
mick was much alarmed at the men
tai affliction Of her son, which had
changed him from bright school
boy, who had stood at the head of
his class in nearly every study to a
mentally sluggard youth. She final
ly consulted DR.. William e. Ramsay
about his condition on April %, last
and the doctor advised her to take
her son to the Roosevelt hospital,
where he would be under the care
of DR.. Booth. This was Immediately
done, and the operation was per-
formed April 26.
DR.. Booth found that the great
shock caused by the accident, which
had fractured the right side of the
youths skull, had SO shocked the left
side of the cerebrum of the brain
that watery cyst had formed,
which induced hemorrhages Of the
brain and caused the fainting spells
and the loss of recognition and MEM
ory. This he concluded must be re-
Mover. On April 20; left side of the
skull was cut open and part of the
bone taken out and the cyst emorved
after which the bone flap was re-
placed. The young man was kept in
the hospital until last Monday, when
he was allowed to return home,
where he seems to have entirely re-
covered from his affliction, save for
natural weakness. 1t Is believed the
cure will be permanent, though he
will visit the specialist at intervals.
The accident occurred in August,
1905, when young Mccormick was
trying to get off pile driver at the
Perth Amboy Dry Docks. He was
about forty feet above one Of the
docks and was descending by means
Of rope. One Of his companions, in
innocent amusement, jerked the
rope causing him to lose his balance,
and he fell headlong to the dock,
pei AhAho tho h'6A1 PdlI VI lib IuIuulS
skull, which was fractured, a part Of
the bone Of the skull pressing on his
brain causing a morbid condition to
develop. He was taken to the city
hospital, and in several days an
operation was performed which at
tracted widespread attention, and
the clinic was attended by physicians
from different parts of the state. He
was relieved of the depression and
discharged from the institution. ap-
parently nearly recovered, In about
seventeen days, though during the
first few days of the accident it was
thought that he would succumb to
his awful injury. In the accident he
also broke his right wrist, which Is
still in an abnormal condition,
though 1t was treated by physicians.
There was no happier woman in
all the land than the mother of the
youth when returned home Monday
relieved of his mental affliction, and
as lucid and as bright as when as a
school boy he had won her deserved
pride In his school ACCOMPLISHMENTS