GIVING A MAN A NEW SKULL.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1155, 3 March 1874, Page 2

GIVING A MAN A NEW SKULL.

[echo.] Wo have great doctors in England, very great indeed, according to the Parisian Petit Jou. rial, and the greatest of Ihein all, strange to say, is ono whot-c name we do not remember ever to have seen except in a novel—the Dor or " "Willoughby do Glenmore." This marvellous surgeon, before whom

Nol.itou and Paget must hide their diminished heads, has had it seems, for ono of his patients, a modioli student, aQlieted with a most terrihlo malady. Tho poor young man suffered tortures in the head, tho sufficient causo being that a wholo crowd of myriapod insects had, somehow, got into his skull, and habitually took their walks abroad over his dura mater: To euro such a state of things strong remedies were obviously needful, and the Dr Willoughby do Glenmore was not a man to shrink from the most heroic. Ho took tho man's skull to pieces, severing it cleverly at tho sutures, and laying tho scalp down carefully on his shoulders. This done tho doctor carefully cleaned the exposed brain, tailing from it no less than twenty-seven fullgrown insects and a quantity of eggs, and then —as the patient's own skull was no longer available—supplied him with another taken from tho head of a lately deceased person. The flanges of scalp were then drawn back to thenplaces over the new skull, and tho much relieved patient became " perfectly convalescent." Everything (tho Petit Journal assures us) is entirely satisfactory about the cure, save tho fear which has been expressed by some phrenologists, that the hitherto amiable character of tho medical student may be chauged for that of the former proprietor of the skull, to whose organs, of course, his brain will soon bo moulded.