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man's brain which required the severing of both 

 the auditory and the visual nerves. When the 

 nerves were reunited they were mismated, the up- 

 per portions of the optic nerves being joined to 

 the under sections of the auditory nerves, and vice 

 versa. The result of this distressing blunder is 

 that the man sees sounds and hears colors. Look- 

 ing at a red object he heard a deep base tone, and 

 when blue was shown, the sound was like the tinkle 

 of electric bells. But the ringing of an electric 

 call-bell produced the sensation of blue light, and 

 listening to Beethoven's " Pastoral Symphony " 

 caused a vision of green meadows and waving corn. 



The celebrated Italian scientist, Professor Lorn- 

 broso, had an " hysterical " patient who lost her 

 eyesight completely, but was able to read with the 

 tip of her ear. As a test, the rays of the sun were 

 focused upon her ear through a lens, and they daz- 

 zled her as if turned upon normal eyes, causing a 

 sensation of being blinded by unbearable light. 



Still more puzzling to Professor Lombroso was 

 the fact that her sense of taste was transferred to 

 her knees, and that of smell to her toes. This ab- 

 normality is very simple to the knower of the Tatt- 

 vas, who recognizes these locations as centers of 

 great activity for the Tattvas corresponding with 

 these senses; that is, Apas in the knees, and Prith- 

 ivi in the feet. 



Corresponding with the above-mentioned triads 



