MAN’S HEAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 12

MAN’S HEAD

BOUGHT FOR MEDICAL MEN LONDON, Oct. 2d. Datas, a man with a remarkable memory, well known to physicians, has sold his head to the medical school, at King’s College Hospital, London, for use by the doctors after his death. The London port, u s desire his head in order that, if • ••i«sib!e. an explanation for his extraordinary memory may he found in an analysis of his brain. For this, Datas is to receive £IOOO down, £SIOO a quarter for life, a grave for four, and a. coffin, A group of doctors associated with the College of Physicians are guaranteeing the money. “They are ensuring that I shall never want,” said Datas, who is appearing at a Manchester dance hall, “hut as long as I cun Keep on performing I shall never touch the money. I should like to leave it to the hospital, but if my family need it, it will go to tlieiji ” —‘ s, who is reputed to have the world’s best memory, and can state 2000 facts' and dates of the Great War, knows the name of every Derby winner for the last .50 years. He rattles off .dates at a lightning speed. Tii 1004 four American doctors paid £IO.OOO for the Head- of Datas, but he outlived them all and his bead became bin o,wn.