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A Queer Case Of Amnesia

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The queerest caco of amnesia ever known in ConnecUcut extsts now in Plantsvllle. Rev. T. c. Hanna, pastor of the riantsvllle Baptist church, is the victim. On April 17 Mr. Hanna Ktoppccl his horse to adjust a strap of hls harness This act coat hlm hls educatlon; In fact, his mental strength. As he attempted to Jump from hls carriaftii hls feet caught In the robe, he was Lhrown headlong to me ground and lnocked utleonsclous. Ho was found and taken home by friends, bu; hls mind was gone, and when eonsclousness returned hls memory was a blank. Hls parents stood by hls bed when, an hour after the acoldent, ho moved agaln and mumbled something II articúlate, but he dld not know them; he did not even know the meaning of the words "father" and "mother." He could not Bpeak a word of any language, and the task of teaching hlm to talk, walk, and act was begun all over ngain. The relations of his family were explaincd to him, and, like f. uew-born babe. lio was agaln taught to read, wrlte, and even eat. His loss oí sperch proved easily overeóme, as he , tnembered, with wonderful mental tsnacity, the meaning of tho longest words as soon as they were oxplained to him. Ab tho chlld, before he beSins to go to sohcol, picks out familiar words cm houaehold objects, Mr. Hanna bcgan to learn language and words from a íc lpture roll that his father hung up over hia bed. Every bit of the Bible that he liad loarned had glipped from hls memory, but hg_Jias memorlzed ïtiuch Finco then, alt.hough he cannot yet read the Blblo understandIngly. He dees a little light readlng, mostly of simple story books. All hla former accornpllshments, such as sketching, drawing, typewritlng, etc, ure forgottcn.

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Ann Arbor Register