A Man With a Silver Skull

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

A Man With a Silver Skull

ONE of the queerest curiosities on the globe is a man with a silver skull, who is now visiting in Louisville, Kentucky. During a fiercely contested battle in the late war, this interesting individual was struck in the head with a piece of shell, which tore away the entire top of his skull, leaving the brain most horribly exposed. Strange to say, he survived the terrible wound, and a surgeon succeeded in fitting a silver plate over the opening, which shielded the brain equally as well as the skull. This plate is about the size of a man’s hand and works on hinges, and may be raised up and down at will. The re-skulled man does not experience the least pain, and as he wears a wig, all evidence of a shattered skull is concealed.—Sel.