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Show I When You Meed Your Itraln No Laintrer. i If, when you open your mail, dear i reader, you receive a polite request for i your brain, do not lie astonii-hed. The : eiqilanation is this: A number of seien-i seien-i tific men have formed an organization tiro purpose of which is to take the I brains of distinguished persons after death and study them, with a view to fuller knowledge both of medicine and mind. Dr. Joseph Leidy is president of the organization and Dr. Pepper secretary. secre-tary. Both are of Philadelphia. A large ! number of persons havo already promised prom-ised to allow their brains to be examined wlieu they have no further rise for them, and among thoso persons is tho Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston. Letters requesting brains have been sent out to nearly all the notabli men and women of the country. Next summer, sum-mer, at the meeting iu Washington of tho congress of physicians and surgeons, this organization will be perfected, and associate members in the different cities will be authorized. When that is dono you can do your family physician a s,)e-cial s,)e-cial honor by bequeathing to him your brain, which he will examine and report on or perhaps forward it to tho stx-cial-ists in Philadelphia. -Pittsburg Times, |