AFTER 46 YEARS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 7

AFTER 46 YEARS.

* i The phonograph la wonderful enough, but the human brain is vastly its superior, as it has recently been known to have stored up for 45 years the thoughts actually passing through it, and the speech resulting therefrom,” states a medical man. “A boy in a village in the Tyrol, when fifteen years old, went to his father's field to catch a frisky colt. When about to place a halter about the animal’s neck it kicked him on the head. The wound healed, but the use of the boy’s reason did not return. For forty-five years he lived in the village, until he reached the age of sixty. Then a prominent German specialist, who passed through the village on a holiday, offered to experiment. Finding that a portion of the skull had been forced into contact with the brain, he, by a skilful operation removed tho pressure. “The man at once regained his reason, and his first utterance, as tho effects of the anaesthetic wore aff, was—'Did the colt get away ?' “