The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-08
SOperation to Bring Life and
Mind to Nineteen Year Old
Girl Weighing Thirty
eight Pounds.
WAS RAISED IN CELLAR
Child Paralyzed When Baby, Had Been
Kept Shut Up for Past
Seventeen
Years.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Dec. S.-Starved OF men-
tai and physical growth for seventeen
years through misguided parents who
kept her shut in a cellar for that
period, Mary Kolwizski, 19, was 10
be given a chance today to start over
again
Surgeons this morning were pre-
pared to operate and effect the trans
planting of a monkeys thyroid gland,
which, according to DIR. Sigmund
Krmholz, specialist in neurology, will
start Mary, who he says has the mlnd
of a six months old baby "on her way
| to live" 20
/ Crnnched in chair at the An1eri-
can hospital here today, Mary, a mere
mass of bones and skin, stared va
cantly. Her weight is exactly thirty
eight pounds and according to Krum'
hoIz she is incapable of thinking,
speaking and walking.
! "Au she can do is to sleep and eat,
: he said.
| Mary, according to KrumhoH. was
found in the cellar of her mother
home at Joliet, Illinois, last Septem-
her by health officers. She was COW
cred with vermin and, according to
the health officers, who questioned
! Mrs. John Zundke, the mother, she
had been there for seventeen years.
According to the broken story OF
the mother, who is said to be unable
to speak English clearly, the girl suf-
fered infantile paralysis when she was
a year old. Efforts, it was said, were
made to cure her but finding them un'
availins the mother decided as
means of protection to the girl to
keep her in the cellar.
! Krumholz, with Drs. Max ThoreH
and Bernard Klein, became interested
and volunteered to MAZE an effort to
bring the child back to it's normal
condition. She was placed in an OBJ
servation ward where Krumholz, a
mind expert, watched her. After two
months care it was decided to trans
plant monkeys gland.
"The child has complete paralyza
ton of adl extremities-no speech and
mo mind and unable to walk" said
| krumholz.
! "She has learned to do one thing
laugh
The only thing she has an interest
in are the trees which stand just out
side her window.
Krumholz declared he first endeaV
ored to obtain man or woman tC
give up a thyroid gland, but failing
decided on a monkey.
I'VE had to get gland of % near
est relative to the human being anC
that is the monkey" he said. 1--WE
don't know that the transplanting viii
he successful. but we hope that i
will be of benefit so that she will bt
able to take care of herself and en-
joy life
The operation will take half al
hour.
If successful, and Krumholz declares
there is little likelihood of it not be
ing so, it will be necessary to give the
girl special attention.
1T will require motherhood pa
tience in bringing up the child h'
said. For the next two or three
years, it will be necessary to handle
it as a mother would handle its baby
OF course it will learn faster than ;
baby, but it must be taught to walk
speak and think.
81 am not quite clear how the bring
ing I'D of the child is to be arranged
| would like to obtain the services o
a girl interested in helping humanity.
The operation will be performed b,
Thorek and Klein.