Show PAN IN Physics W Which ich Phys clans are A Able le to l 7 1 Three w weeks k so ato Ol n r of In Indiana Indiana diana lest both bands banda in a railway acci accident accident dent The hands wr were pLaced in a jar of and Mr tr arms r ci d th most t careful a ful J surgical attention H tie d however f r for two weeks from S and pains where hert the hands hand r fOrmerly wr were Mr Bacheler insisted d that his lost Jost hands hand crowded rond l In suck a way as to give him the sensation ot of severe cramp ing paths and when 11 bt learned d how they thoy had be been n disposed of he that the they b be properly burl burled The handS were taun from the jar jer were er straightened to toa toa a natural PositIon were carefully I wrapped wore messed Incased in a box and w were re burled buried As soon as this was done Mr r Bachelor was relieved of the pains that had kept him In agony for weeks This star story will b be received with smiles b by t the younger experts of the medical profession with shakes of af the head hend b by the older surgeons and with ready belief b by hundreds ds or of m m who have suffered as Mr Bacheler suffered Many a roan who has suffered amputation tion of af a log or foot has been kept in an anguish b hr th eling of some object be between between tween th the toes by an Intolerable itching a toe ought to be or by a sharp rheumatic pain lain in th the ban ball ot of a missing root foot A man who 11 has S lost n a hand or 01 an arm has been seized with a die pain In the limb or In Ul fingers and has become almost hysterical bp be because cause came he QuId could not relieve It by touching the hand that was not there Surgeons called to tr treat nt suCh cases have hao contended that the ling was simp simply hallucination that men who have hayE suffer suffered oil ed amputation have hav read stories of queer j sensations In lost limbs anti amI these stories have taken taRen such suh a hold upon th imagination that they experience the iain n attributed to the tho men whose stories have read Acting on this theory the falls In with the belief beUf of the man tt toss rs something to quiet his an and In ca cases Q where th the missing hand band os OP miss Ing Toot Is accessible gives di ns for tor its proper and interment However this do doss s not settle the cure casc In a week or a month th the man of tile the lost hand ban or lost foot has other trying experiences and the surgeon tries to laugh him out of the hallucination In good time th the patent apparently dora ers his belief belie as to lUin in the lost foot or 01 hand but In his hig OW own heart he holds to It He may not talk taik about it but he will Insist that the In the mIss lag Ing foot Is so r real al and so that It at times drives him almost to the 1 Point ot of Insanity These ThEBe are strong stron men who have had such experiences and their theory is 11 that some careless treatment of 01 the nerves norves severed In amputation Is resl responsible for tor forthe the queer sensations A few Cew surgeons surgeon have admitted that there ma may be some something something thing In this theory but If It be admitted that the theory Is correct It does not Ox cx plain the sensations experIenced b by Mr It Bacheler In this ag age when theo the nerves of af men and women Omen receive more attention from the medIcal profession proCession than ever before beCore It Is not a little strange that these so o culled hallucinations as to sensations In members of af the bOdy have not been more mort closely Investigated Are th these the work or of the Imagination or are th they y the result qt of real physical |