BLADE IN MAN’S BRAIN
OUTCOME OF BRAWL IN 1901. Surgeons in Chicago have decided that a man who has carried a twoand a half inch knife blade in his brain for 30 years will continue to carry it for the remainder of his days. Dr. Karl Meyer, of the county hospital, states that he has decided not to remove the blade from the brain of 58-year-old Linus Larson, because the operation would be too dangerous. Larson has suffered no particular pain, but has been subject to lapses of consciousness. He once fell unconscious in a bonfire; again he swooned after turning on a jet in a kitchen stove. He explained to the surgeons that he was involved in a tavern brawl in 1901, but did not realise until recently that the knife blade had broken off in his skull.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3442, 12 March 1932, Page 3
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139BLADE IN MAN’S BRAIN King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3442, 12 March 1932, Page 3
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