Show FORGOT EVEN HIS MOTHER A Calif ornianjs Memory Gone as the Result of a Surgical Operation George C Hunter of Oakland has lost his memory as completely as if he had never had a brain He is alive and well goes about just like any ordinary person but can recall nothing of his past life His mind is a blank He does not remember his wife nor his mother Though he had a good education educa-tion he has forgotten how to read or write and themultiplication table has fled into regions from which he cannot recall it He remembers that a face is familiar but that is all The name of anything about the person he can cn not recall The accident bringing such consequences occurred on the 15th of October Young Hunter was working on a locomotive in the railroad round house in West Oakland when an iron plug was blown from a steampipe and struck him on the head fracturing the brain He was removed to Dr Wool seys hospital in an unconscious condition condi-tion and placed under the care of Dr Dunn A large part of the skull whore the iron struck i was splintered and pressed inward against the brain So serious was the case that It seemed almost hopeless to attempt to save the mans life Nevertheless the attempt was madet and from the surgeons standpoint it was a most successful operation Hunter lived The splintered splinter-ed portion of the skull porton skul measuring about two inches in width by four inches in length was carefully removed and the pressure upon the brain re ieved It was then seen that the spun ered bone had lacerated the mem brane of the brain The doctors then began to cultivate the injured brain and its coverings The process of gad ulation has gone on day by day until the entire membrane has been restored The gap in the scalp will now be repaired re-paired by the difficult operation which involves the use of skin grafts taken in long strips from some other portion of Hunters body For a period of four weeks after the accident Hunter lay in his cot in the hospital unconscious He gave no sign of life save that he breathed Suddenly one morning consciousness returned and memory was gone All his past was a blank Dr Woolsey asked him hIs name but Hunter only shook hfs head and looked at him wonderlngly Paper and pencil were wonderingly he wrote the letter leter g but could go no further and gave the paper back When his mother and his wife visited him he looked at them for awhile and then said that the faces seemed famil iar but who they were he could not say Hunter is now able to walk about and is to all appearances well He remembers re-members what is told him talks in elllgently about everything that has happened since his return to consciousness conscious-ness but back of that he conscous I S F Examiner gd |