1908

Matas loses his right eye to gonorrheal conjunctivitis, when he wiped his face with soiled operating gown following surgical removal of a tubo-ovarian abscess (Cohn, 330-336). In 1901, Tom Cullen’s mentor Leslie Sweetnam died from infection from a prick under fingernail following surgery on a tramp with a gangrenous leg [Robinson, 166]). Babinski first observes anosognosia (i.e., “unaware of illness”) – tendency to ignore or sometimes even deny the fact that one’s left arm or leg is paralyzed (Ramachandran, 128).