Show I 1 NAILS IN SHULL the phenomenal case 0 of a young youn man whose chief enjoyment in life apparently consisted sn in wa walking lhing around with huge nails driven into his skull has just been brought to the attention ol of tile the french academy ot of medicine photographs ol of tho the young man a M martin of marseilles Mars ellIgs and X rays were bbown the distinguished assembly I 1 and revealed the presence ot of two long nails practically passing through the young mans brain in spite ot of this he be lived on in the best ot of health it was reported in this connection that when at one time the surgeons had pulled the nails out as one would pull them out ot of a wall the patient on being left alone and apparently patently ly sensing an empty feeling in the head picked up a couple ot of knitting needles and jabbed them through tho the holes left by the nail ualle X rays of this feat eat also were brought as documentary evidence |