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EVENING CEBGUB !PttIEATEEPHIX tTATUItDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915:
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DOCTORS VIEW STRANGE AND VARIED
FORMS.OP NERVOUS AFFLICTION
Bemirkablc Cases at Clinic in Which Subjects Walk
Like Chimpanzee and Crab Sane Mind
Unable to Direct Muscles
A mtn who walks like a chlmpanxee
net another who moves Ilk a crab, vie-
ttn ot rare and grotesque nervous, ills- 1
eases, vrero nuuim ioiy ur "--"
front various sections of this Stato at a
rtlnla In Blockeley Hospital.
A gTown man who has learned to walk
tter two years of painstaking Instruc
tion, and whose vocabulary Is limited to
the "boo" and "ugs" of a baby was an
other study. A fourth was a mart who,
told to put his hand on his head, puts it
on his shoulder or his elbow-unywhero
Vut on his head and cannot do other
wise, though he understands perfectly
the command which has been given to
him,
And nil of these aro sane. And they
arc normal In all respects savo thls-that
their nervous systems are out of adjust
ment to a degree that Is, literally, hor
rible. Dr. Charles K. Mills, ono of Philadel
phia's best-known neurologists and a
member ot the staffs of Blockley and of
the University of Pennsylvania, con
ducted tho atudy and explained tho un
vaual afflictions as part of tho program
ef tho RSth annual convention of tho
State Medical Society,
Ono case, that of tho man who walks
much as a chimpanzee travels along tho
round in the heart of tho Dark Con
tinent. Is tho only example in tho United
States ot a disease which, stripped of
Its Latin designation. Is called Hunting
don's, chorea. Chorea Is "St. Vitus
dance." In the caso at Blockley tho vic
tim has It in an enormously exaggerated
form.
Only In sleep does this man find repose.
For years every waking moment his head
has Jerked forward to his knees and
then, no less Irresistibly, been drawn for
back and then Jerkeif forward, the move
ment being accompanied by a similar
lowering and raising of his arms. His
food I administered by an attendant.
The uncontrolled movement of head
and arms is unremitting when tho pa
tient walks. He crawls slowly on his
hands and feet, while his head rises
from an attitude In which it touches tho
ground to ono in which it Is thrown far
back, his neck strained in tho weird
posture.
No remedy can euro this disease. Only
Bleep brings even temporary Burcease.
"Torticollis" is the diagnosis of tho
ease In which tho patient, llko a crab.
TWO AMERICANS FIRST
TO REACH GEIKITS TOP
New Yorker And Minnesotnn
Climb GOOO Feet of Sheer
Wall of Ico
can move only sideways, his left hand
resting near tho floor and his left foot
moving forward, to bo followed by the
right foot In a shuffling movement To
turn he must reach the wall with hla
back and turn with a pivoting motion.
Doctor Mills declared that this was
only tho second case ot the affliction he
had encountered In his long practice.
Apraxla, a dlteaso characterized by ex
treme lack of co-ordination between mind
and the nervous and muscular systems,
Is tho cnuso ot tho inability of another
ot tho unfortunates studied at the cllnla
to obey commands which he understands
perfectly.
"Light this clgoretto with this matoh,"
he was told, and "What did I tell you
to do?" he was. asked by Doctor Mills.
"To light this cigarette with this
match," camo the clear response.
But when ho tried to carry out tho
action he struck tho matchbox against
tho clgarotto, instead ot striking tho
matoh against tho matchbox. Commands
to touch various parts of his body were
responded to with similar ineffectual
efforts.
MAN LEAHN1NO TO WALK.
Tho rare caso ot a sano man who Is as
helpless as a child to perform any simple
act In which ho has not boon drilled
carofully was described as asslnorgy. It
took two years to teach this man to walk.
Tho first time ho mado an attempt to
do anything but Us in his bed was ono
day when ho saw a man walking In tho
room and suddenly, as u. tiny Infant
might, crawled laboriously out of tho cot
and, on the floor, feebly crept on hands
and knees.
Ho still must be fed and ho has not
learned to speak. These steps are be
ing taught by physicians and attendants
ot tho Institution, where ho has been a
patient for two years.
Flvo Prisoners Whipped at tho Post
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept 25,-Fivo
prisoners were whipped at the New Castle
County "Workhouse today. Only a few
spectators were present. Nono of tho
men appeared to suffer greatly. Tho men
whipped were Oorgo Butler, 20 lashes and
six months; Frank Harrison, 30 lashes and
nlno months; Clifford Huggles, 10 lashes
and six months; Lewis Berry, 10 lashes
and six months, and Stephen Klrby, 20
lashes and six months.
NEW TOItK, Sept. IS.-First to climb
Mount Qelkle, In Alberta, B. C are two
Americans, ono of whom, Dr. Andrew J,
GUmour, ot this city, returned yester
day, with his story of the conquest ot
the frozen heights. He is consulting der
matologist at the Manhattan 8tate Hos
pital on Ward's Island. His companion
was Trof. Edward W. D. Holway, of
tho department of botany ot the Univer
sity ot Minnesota.
Joined by a CO-foot rope, the two men
dug their way to tho summit of Gelkle,
11,018 feet high. Five thousand feet of
that way was up the nearly sheer wall
of blue, cold Ico and compact snow, in
which tho explorers had to cut steps. It
took, soveral days to work around from
Edmonton to the back ot tho great crag
In British Columbia and a base camp was
established halt way up.
The final ascent was on August E.
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Man Held on Complaint of Women
A wouldbo conversationalist, who Is ao
cused of talking to women to whom ho
hadn't been introduced in a moving pic
ture theatre at 19CG Columbia avenue,
was held under IS0O ball today for a
further hearing, by Magistrate Morris, of
the 19th and Oxfonl streets station. Ho
is William 13. Hubbs, 30 years old, 3721
North 17th street. Ho was arrested on
tho complaint ot .several women, who did
not appear at the hearing.
13-Year-OId Lad to Mako Trip West
A 13-year-old Philadelphia boy will sail
nlono from New York for San Francisco
via tho Panama Canal today on tho Fin
land to meet his father and stepmother.
Ho Is Archibald Henderson Hamilton, of
4501 Falrmount avenue. Tho lad never
has met his stepmother. Ho was taken
DOCTORS SAY XAY WILL
HELP IN FIGHTING CANCER
Roentgen Rays Upheld as Great IIopo
of Surgery
ATLANTIC CITT, N. J Sept. JS.-De-ctartng
that X-ray specialists have dis
covered a method that promises to put
Into the hands ot surgeons cases on early
intestinal cancer where immediate oper
atlvq treatment will insure complete
cures, Dr. George C Johnson, ot Pitts
burg, today urged members of the Amer
ican noenrgen Bay Society not to be
timid about their diagnosis,
"There are lesions a surgeon may eas
ily overlook in an operation and we have
an Infinite duty to our patients to Inves
tigate every portion of an affected tract
and to do it as thoroughly as possible,"
said Dr. W. C. Manges, of Philadelphia.
Other specialists urged -the Roentgen
ray experts to develop a standardized
practice for determining early symptoms
of malignancy. It was declared that al
most mloroscoplo evidence of cancer,
which In soma Instances had excited the
contempt of surgeons, had amply justi
fied the X-ray men In procuring surgical
exploration. Dr. James T, Case, of Battle
Creek, pleaded with X-ray colleagues to
be exceedingly careful about criticisms
of surgeons.
"Wo need team work," ho said, "to
advanoo our work to tho stage ot greater
certainty and this will not be encouraged
by dogmatism upon our part."
Wilmington Boys on Strike
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 25,-At the
plant of tho Sheet Metal Contracting
Company a number of boys went on a
strike, and the dispute has not yet been
settled. The boys) wero getting 16 conts
an hour and demanded 2a Tho concern
manufactures tin boxes for the Du Fonts.
Man Killed Trying to Board Train
CARLISLE, Pa Sept. 23. Charles Mor
ris. 80 years old of Carllslo was killed oy
a fast freight train on the Philadelphia
and Reading road just south of here last
nlxht when ho attemDted to steal a ridn
to New York by his aunt, Mrs. Jesslo H. in order to reach tho Lancaster fair. Tho
Collett. body was not found until today.
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Rushed to Completion to Servo
as Model Work Proceed
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The first of tho double row ot con
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superstructure of tho Frankford ele
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Fifty other pillars are under construc
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the bottom of eight-foot pits and the
concrete pillars will be constructed on
the top ot these ptlos. .
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bolts where they extend above the con
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steel forms woro first placed In tho ex
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of broken rock were dropped and a
steam concrete mixing machine was then
placed above the excavation and the
concreto poured directly Into tho steel
form from the maohlne. Heavy rocks
were thrown in the pit at various depths
to reinforce the concrote. When tho
concreto' has hardened the steel forms
will be withdrawn.
Ex-Lcadcr in Russian Council Dead
PETROQRAD, Sept. 25. Tho death of
Peter Nlkolatevlch Dumovo Is announced.
He had been Russian Minister ot the In
terior, a member of tho Council of the
Empire and leader of tho party of the
Right In the Council.
STUDENTS WW FKH1T
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Schools in College Department!
ot u. ot to open at 8:S
Instead of 9 A. M.
University ot Pennsylvania state!,
have won their fight for earlier reeMe.4
lion nours. uorearier in an the sohoasil
ot tho college department recitations st
lectures win Dcgin at .30 o'clock lal
stead of 9. In the professional schoeWl
no changes nave been made.
This Is the culmination ot the flM
begun last year by Vivian Nlckalls, ts
former crew coacn. NicKaus started tsa
agitation In order that candidates f
ine wows imam ri-puri earner. Tvhes
recitations began at 9 o'clock th Z
men could not get on the river before t
o'clock. Tho same conditions existed Is
tho other major sports. As a rrjit m
tho agitation the students got up petfi
tlons by classes asking that the UnlTee.
slty open at 8 o'clock. Somo membm j
the faculty protested, notably Dr. Thosi."
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