AN ASTONISHING CURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1049, 26 May 1882, Page 3

AN ASTONISHING CURE.

Here is something remarkable. A woman in New Haven was recently beref of her scalp by the idiosyncrasies of a shaft and belt. The doc to. s saw that to remedy the evil, they would have to have recourse to transpi mting; and so they actually succeeded in getting; a sufficient number ot pieces from other people's heads to give this unfortunate woman a new scalp. We hope those New Haven doctors used more discretion than did he who attended a man named "Finlay, who nmt with a similar accident in Oiiskat y, N.Y., some thirteen years ago. Bits of scalp from seventeen different persons were secured by this doctor, and adroitly stitched to (he head of Mr Finlay. When it was done, (people came miles to see Finlay’s head ; and Finlay himself, with his checker-board cranium, was the lumpiest man in Oriskauy. But when the capillary elands got in workingorder, and the hair commenced to grow, the top of that man’s head presented the most extraordinary specmcle on record The doctor, who was about half tV>c time in liquor, had consulted expediency rather than judgment, and secured that new scalp without any reference to future developments. We never saw anything like it. Here was a tuft of yellow hair, and next to it a bit of black, and then a flame of red, and a little like silk, and more like tow, with brown hair, and gray hair, and sand} hair, and cream-colored hair, scattered over his entire skull, And what a mad man (hat Finlay was! and nobody could blame him. He could stand up against the barn for an hour at a time, and sob and swear. It was very fortunate that the doctor was dead. He went off two weeks before with blue ague, which is is a mild sort of disease.

Finlay kept liis hair cut short; Imt that didn’t make any difference Then ho tried dyes; but they only made matters worse. Then he got a wig, and this covered up the deformity ; but sometimes at church he would get asleep, and the wig would tall off, and make the children cry. Once, at the county fair, he fell asleep, and the wig dropned off; and the committee on domestic goods, when they came around, stood in front of Finlay’s head for some five minutes rape in delight They 'hen immediately decided that it was (he most ingenious piece of patchwork in the list, and nevtr discovered the mistake until they attempted to pin the premium card to it. At that Finlay awoke, and knocked down the chairman ot the committee, and cnased the others out of the building We hope those New-Haven doctors have been more particular, as it is not a subject to trifle with.— Danbury Newsman