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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16424, 18 January 1919, Page 6

The peculiar case of a man who can neither i'eel pain, cold nor heat, has no sense of taste or smell, does not know what fatigue means, and is apparently without-'auy emotions, affections, or dislikes is described by Captain b. VRoberts, R.A.M.C.. in the "I-aneet. He is a Breton sailor who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and was treated tor mumps in the military hospital at Aldershot. "His body." says Captain Roberts, "is plentifully strewn with the scars of wounds and burns which li" has inflicted on himself either for beta or to astonish the onlookers. 1 have myself seen him on more than one occasion hold a burning match against the skin of his arm for 10 or 13 seconds, and then unconccrnedly pick off the charred epidermis." Blows on the head with a poker, the plunging of the fingers into hot water, the placing of higulyseasoned substances in his mouth produced no effect, and were not even realised by the man as happening when he had his eyes closed. The man who is described as well-developed, highly good-natured, mentally sound, and above the average in intelligence, dates his complete immunity from an attack of yellow fever at the age of 17.