Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-01-18 | Page 13 | Lives for a Year without a Brain

LIVES FOR A YEAR WITHOUT A BRAIN Spoclal Cable to Tho Tribune. PARIS, Jan. 17. A remarkable medical medi-cal phenomenon has been reported to tho Academy of Science by Dr. Itobluson, who rocorded tho enso of a man S2 yearo of ajjo, who lived for a year without a brain. The man Injured himself sllghtlv In the occipital roBlon, but although Cils evo-slght evo-slght was affected hl four other nensoa remained normal. At tho end of a vear ho died of an epileptic sulznro. Dr. Robinson Rob-inson performed a poat-morlem examination, examina-tion, and found the brain had hecomo simply sl pulpy llciuld mast. "This cuso, ays Pr. Koolnxon, "entirely "en-tirely upHoty tlnj old medical theorv of locull'.atlou. whereby the motive force of t'lo different scntsus Is supposed to be supplied by distinct portions of the bi'In."