A MARTYR TO SCIENCE.
London, January 2,
Dr. Henry Head, the famous physician, is now a victim of the Parj' kinson’s disease, a form of creeping; paralysis of which he has made a lifelong study. When the symptoms appeared 18 months ago he retired to Dorchester. He cannot write, though doctors throughout the world' still coil- 1 ; suit him on abstruse problems of neurology. Dr. Head dictates his replies to his wife. i-
Twenty years ago he deliberately risked contracting the paralysis by severing the nerves of his left arm, near the elbow, for the purpose of studying the problems of deep sensibility. He prefaced the experiment by rigorous self-denial. His arm healed perfectly. The present complaint is apparently due to later overwork. Dr. Head used to tell his patients that they must resign themselves to sleeplessness. He says: “I am sorry now I did not quite appreciate how hard life was for them.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3737, 5 January 1928, Page 3
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154A MARTYR TO SCIENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3737, 5 January 1928, Page 3
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