The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-01-08
GIRLS MIND FAILS
TO Tell Of CURE.
Para|ytic Nor Parents Dis
cover She Is Better.
cH|LD'S CASE A PUZZLE.
eedridden and Specifies For Three
Years After Fall, Now Cured Except
ing Her Mind Fails to Register Fact.
Los Angeles Teacher Led Her, to
Walk and Speak. =, .,...

Los Angeles Teacher Led Her, to
Walk and Speak. .,,.,.
Los Angeles.-One of the most re-
markable cases known in medical his
tory and one fraught with interest
both to surgeons and to students of
psychology has been called to the at
tention of scientists in this city. It is
the case of Carlotaa Sausedo, fifteen
year-old schoolgirl. ~-
For three years Carlotaa was con-
sidered hopeless paralytic, who
would never be able to speak or walk.
She had been injured by fall on her
head from a swing when she was
twelve years old. %,-
1t is declared now by doctors and
her teachers that whatever body or
brain injuries she may have received
from that fall have been absolutely
outgrown and that she is perfectly
normal physically and mentally, ex-
cept that her mind has failed to regis
ter the fact Of her recovery.
In other words, according to the
doctors, if the childs mind can be
wakened to the fact that she has re-
covered from her fall she will be able
to walk, talk and develop as other
children do.
While three weeks ago Carlotaa
could not speak and could not walk
alone, today she speaks with ease,
walks without help and can even walk
up and down the school stairs alone.
Three years ago the little girl pitched
from swing to her head. She was
picked up and stood on her feet. In
stead of standing still she began to
whirl round and round. She was en-
tirely unable to stand still or to sit up.
She was put to bed and pronounced a
hopeless paralytic. Her power of speech
was completely stopped.
With the beginning of the present
school term Miss Etties Lee. one Of the
grammar school teachers, discovered
the child. There were five other chill
dren in the family, all normal, and
Miss Lee inquired into Carlotaa's his
tory. Securing medical examination,
she learned that, whatever bodily in
jury may have been caused by the fall,
it no longer existed.
1--WE cannot tell Carlotaa she is not a
cripple or sick. because her mind has
to be Weakened up gradually to that
fact" Miss Lee said, "but we are
teaching her by degrees. She is placed
in special class at school, and her
teacher invents little exercises and les
sons for her:
"She had to be almost carried to
school. Her teacher made small sand
pile in the playground and many times
a day took CarlOtaa there and helped
her walk over it. Today Carlotaa can
wax up and down the school stairs.
: when school opened she could not
talk. Now she talks to us and knows
what we say. She can count in English
and Spanish and can write her own
name. Her father tells me she was un-
usually bright before the fall, and l
see no reason to suppose that she can
not be restored to her former condition.
"She has been in bed for the greater
part of the past three years, as the
schools at Chino would not take her in.
So while her body healed itself, appar-
emily, her mind never recovered from
the shock of the fall" ,....,. ..--
Little Carlotaa was taken to the Par
ent-Teacher clinic for further examina-
tons to verify the diagnosis of other
doctors. If a similar report is made her
special teachers will continue as they
have begun in their novel work of
teaching the child's mind that her body
is neither paralyzed nor injured in any
way. ...-