One Side Alone Works.
A very singular discovery has been made by a hospital surgeon, who asserts, as a result of long investigation, that all the opci-ations of the mind are carried on by tlie left side of the brain.
His conclusion is based on the examination of some hundreds of cases of injury io the brain. He found that when the in; my was on the righsb side of the brain the victim's mind was unimpaired, but that an injury on the left side invariably affc.'tf..! the reasoning powers. One of the most notable cases thai e«ire under the attention was that of a clergyman, the right hemisphere of whose brain was completely decayed, but who. showed no signs of mental deterioration. In another case a man had the whole right side of his brain destroyed by an accident, yet when the wound1 was healed his mind was absolutely uninjured.
In the light of this discovery.'it is easy to understand the numerous recorded cases in which people have survived and remained rational with bullets, naife. and other alien objects embedded in their skulls. The injuries in such cases must have been confined to the right side of the brain.— "Cassell's Saturday Journal."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 4
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