AN ASTONISHING CURE

Temuka Leader, Issue 332, 23 December 1880, Page 2

AN ASTONISHING CURE

: ■■~Her6"'is- “ sohfethiirg - TenTat-kable. woman in New- Haven bereft of her scalp by the of a shaft and belt. The that to remedy the evil they to have recourse to so they actually succeeded sufficient number of pieces <from people’s heads to give this woman a new scalp. We hope New Haven doctors used noiore cretion than did he who attended aman.H named Finlay, who met with a similiar ! accident at Oriskany, N.Y., some! thirteen years ago. Bits of sc alp from ;■ seventeen different persons wer e stitched 1

to the head of Mr, Finlay. When it I was done, people came miles to see 1 Firifay’s head ; and Finlay himself with his checker-board cranium, was happiest man in Oriskany. But the capillary glands got into order and the hair commenced to the top of the man’s head presented most extraordinary spectacle on The doctor, who was about half his in liquor, had consulted expediency] rather than judgment, and secured’ new scalp without any referrence future developments. We never sawH anything like it. There was a tuft o:fl yellow hair, and next to it a piece of! black, and then a flame of red, and a! little like silk, and moreTike tow, with ■ brown hair, and grey hair, and sandy! hair, and cream colored hair scattered, I over his entire skull. And ho a mad- J that Finlay was ! and nobody could I

blame him. He would stand up against the barn tor an hour and sob and swear. It was very fortunate that the doctor : was dead. He went off two weeks before with blue ague, which is a mild sort of disease. Finlay kept his hair cut short, but that didn’traake J*ny difference. Then he tried dyes, but they only made matters worse. Then he got a wig, t and this covered up the deformity ; but sometimes at church the wig would fall off, and make the children cry. Once, at a country fair, he fell asleep and the wig dropped off ; and the committee on domestic goods, when they came around, I stood in front of Finlay’s head for somej five minutes, rapt in delight. they immediately decided that it was the ;■ most ingenious piece of patchwork in ' the list, and never discovered the .mistake until they attempted to pin the premium ( card tc it. At that-Fmlay awoke, knocked down the chai}»m,of- the committee, and chased theMlers out of the building. We hope ycose New Haven doctors have been more particular, lor it is not a subject to trifle with. —[The Danbury Newsman. ]