AN INTERESTINC SCIENTIFIC CASE.
A London correspondent writes '-—A case of a very unusual description is at the present time engaging the attention of medical men in Paris and of several; members of the profession in London. A genfleman residing in the French capital has fallen a victim to a strange disease, a species of tumour having developed itself in close proximity to one side of the brain. The effect of this is to totally incapacitate him from any thought or conscious action, but the brain continuing to work in a mechanical way, and the general organs of his body being sound if he is set wulkicg, he will go on automatically stepping out until stopped by some obstacle ; or if a purse or wjitch be^ handed to,{him, he will place it in his pocket in the most natural manner, without knowing at all that he is doing so. The case is interesting as a study to scientific men, but it is very melancholy, for there is, I understand, no hope of a cure, and the tumour will, ere long, prove fatal to the sufferer.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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185AN INTERESTINC SCIENTIFIC CASE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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