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“Oh, if I only had the vitality of that animal. There is a monster whose vitality is so splendid that the removal of its brain does not disturb it. I should feel very happy if someone would remove my body. If I only had some of that beast's useless strength.”

Body Brain Strength Vitality Monster

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“No longer is he interested in my scientific investigations, but pronounces them all bosh. No longer is his conversation such as an educated man can enjoy, but slangy and diffuse iterations concerning the trivial happenings of our uneventful life. Where will it end? In the absorption of the human mind by the brute body?”

Body Conversation Human

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“Looking at the interior of the skull, I was struck by its resemblance to a human skull; in fact, it is, as nearly as I can judge, the size and shape of the brain-pan of an ordinary man who wears a seven and an eighth hat. Examining the brain itself, I found it to be the size of an ordinary human brain, and singularly like it in general contour, though it is very inferior in fibre and has few convolutions.”

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“Three years ago this month, I found my way through the mountains here to Lake LaMetrie accompanied by a single companion, our friend, young Edward Framingham. He was led to go with me not so much by scientific fervor, as by a faint hope that his health might be improved by a sojourn in the mountains, for he suffered from an acute form of dyspepsia that at times drove him frantic.”

Health Dyspepsia

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“He is beset with the idea that should other men discover him, he may be captured and exhibited in a circus or museum, and declares that he will fight for his liberty even to the extent of taking the lives of those attempting to capture him. As a wild animal, he is the property of whomsoever captures him, though perhaps I can set up a title to him on the ground of having tamed him.”

Animal Circus Museum

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“Framingham is exceedingly ill and talks of dying, declaring that if a natural death does not put an end to his sufferings, he will commit suicide. I do not know what to do. All my attempts to encourage him are of no avail, and the few medicines I have no longer fit his case at all.”

Suicide Medicines

Book:The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Source: The Monster of Lake LaMetrie