REPORTER’S SWORN EVIDENCE. 17th November, 1881.
Q. Did Professor Ferrier offer to exhibit two of the monkeys upon which he had so operated?
A. No; he showed certain of the members of the Congress two monkeys at King’s College.
A. Two monkeys upon which an operation had been performed.
“The interest attaching to the discussion was greatly enhanced by the fact that Professor Ferrier was willing to exhibit two monkeys which he had operated upon some months previously.”…
“In startling contrast to the dog were two monkeys exhibited by Professor Ferrier. One of them had been operated upon in the middle of January, the left motor area having been destroyed. There had resulted from the operation right sided hemiplegia, with conjugate deviation of eyes and of head. Facial paralysis was at first well marked, but ceased after a fortnight. From the first there had been paralysis of the right leg, though the animal was able to lift it up. The arm it had never been able to use. Lately, rigidity of the muscles of the paralysed limbs had been coming on. The other monkey, as a consequence of paralysis of its auditory centres, was apparently entirely unaffected by loud noises, as by the firing of percussion caps in close proximity to its head.”
COUNSEL’S STATEMENT. 17th November, 1881.
Dr. WAKLEY, _sworn, examined by Mr. Waddy_:--
Q. Can you tell me who it was furnished his Report?
A. I have the permission of the gentleman to give his name, Professor Gamgee, of Owen’s College, Manchester.
Mr. WADDY: What I should ask is that one might have an opportunity of calling Professor Gamgee.
Mr. GULLY: I have my reasons for objecting to this. We have communicated with Professor Gamgee and I know very well that he will say precisely what was said by Dr. Roy.
“At a meeting of the Physiological Section of the International Medical Congress held in London in 1881, Professor Goltz exhibited a dog, and Professors Ferrier and Yeo a monkey; from the brain of the dog a large area of the cortex had been removed without producing any such effect as, according to Professor Goltz, would necessarily result if the theory, as usually held, of the localisation of function of the cortex were true; from the brain of the monkey a definite part of the so-called motor area had been removed, and a localised paralysis produced--a paralysis which, according to Professors Ferrier and Yeo, could not result if that theory were not true.”--“_On the Cortical Areas removed from the Brain of a Dog and from the Brain of a Monkey_” _a Report by Dr. Klein, Mr. Langley, and Professor Schäfer, Journal of Physiology_, Vol. IV., 1884, p. 231.