Culpeper Chunn

“ A few days ago it became known that he had perfected an operation for grafting the brain of an animal in the cranium of another animal of the same species, in much the same way, as I understand it, that living tissue and bone are grafted on human beings."
"Ah!" rejoined McKane, and yawned. "What is Consolidated Steel quoted at this morning?"
"His experiments have been successful to a degree almost past belief," I continued, ignoring his question. "The paper says that out of fifty operations performed on dogs and other small mammals only two proved fatal. ”

“ Then he made his will.
"When Borgen arrived several hours later Doctor X was ready for the operation, which, was performed almost immediately afterward.
"I will not try to describe the operation itself. The technicalities would bore you. Suffice it to say, that a short time after the two hemispheres of Doctor X's brain had been grafted in the cranium of his dead son, the organs of the latter began to function. In short, gentlemen, the operation was a success, and the dead man was brought to life." ”

“ With the latter's co-operation, the experiments were carried on in earnest over a period of many years, until at last science triumphed and the labors of the two surgeons were crowned with success.
"The brain-graft was an accomplished fact.
"The experiments, however, had been confined to the lower animals, and before revealing his secret to the world, Doctor X wanted to operate on subjects drafted from the human race.
"Think, gentlemen, what this operation, if successful, would mean to humanity. ”