Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1912 — Man With Only Half a Brain [ARTICLE]

Man With Only Half a Brain

There Is a man with only half a brain in the convalescent home of the Sabbatberg sanitarium at Stockholm, Sweden. His name is Blomquist, and be is a young soldier who was hit by a stray bullet at firing practice last summer. The bullet went through the left temple sad passed out it again through the right side of the skull, it was s bad case, but the surgeons, finding that no motor centers of tbs brain w«re injured, proceeded to operate although they had little

hope of saving the man’s life. For £ro weeks the patient was unconscious, his breathing was feeble and he had to he artificially fed. Then by degrees consciousness returned. His speech and eyesight were badly affected, but both improved gradually. Today, apart from somewhat dimmed eyesight and general weakness, he Is well on the road to recovery, but retains one conspicuous defect, he cannot read Or write. He can distinguish letters, but Is unable to connect them into words. The part of the brain he has lost. It appears, is the sense at memory of what be learned la his yenMl