Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1914 — Nerve Centers Twisted. [ARTICLE]

Nerve Centers Twisted.

An upside-down schoolboy has been discovered at Chester-le-Street, Durham, England. The boy’s name is Eddie Burn, and fie unconsciously reads and writes upside-down. “Eddie,” his schoolmistress states, “seemis incapable of writing his letters the proper way up. When handed a book to read he immediately turns it upside down. The boy is under the impression that he is performing his task in an orthodox manner. In persons of normal vision objects are reflected on the retina (the membranes at the back of the eye) In a position the reverse of that in which they are seen; but the brain translates the vision right side up. In the case of this boy some defect in the nerve centers probably prevents the brain from carrying out Its task.