Living Without His Skull.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2033, 21 February 1887, Page 2

Living Without His Skull.

A MAN'S EXISTENCE PROLONGED BY SUCGESSFCL SUiUiEBlf. Chattanooga, Tenn., November 19.—Most people would say that it is impossible that a man could live without a skull. The tlun| would seem the more impossible in the ease of a man who wasn’t “ horn that way." And yet, even this seemed impossibility is but s seeming one. * T. P. Woodall, a man who died yesterday at Hartsells, Ala., from tbs effects of a tall from the railroad car, bad lived five yean without a skull. He was found five yean ago lying in a fit before an open hearth, his head amid the hot embere of an expiring fire. The entire top of bis head down to hit eyes tad been burned to a crisp, and instant death teemed inevitable. As a last resort, the surgeons removed thfl entire skull as low down as the sockets of the eyes and equally as far in the rear. An arti. lioial covering was plaoed over the brain to protect it from exposure, and in a tew weeks a thin film formed over it, and, strange to say, the man lived, retaining all bit The membrane never hardened, and to thS hour of bit death the convolutions of tuK brain could be easily discerned and Us throwfe binga clearly seen. ”