A Book Examines the Curious Case of a Man Whose Memory Was Removed

A Book Examines the Curious Case of a Man Whose Memory Was Removed

PATIENT H.M. A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets By Luke Dittrich440 pp. Random House. $28. On Aug. 25, 1953, a Connecticut neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville drilled two silver-dollar-size holes into the skull of Henry Molaison, a 27-year-old man with epilepsy so severe he had been prohibited from walking across stage to receive his high school diploma.

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Made me think of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."