<span>B.) to find out what Abigail Williams is plotting</span>
Answer:
She was not wanting in intelligence, but it was the homely prudence of common life, the skill to adapt means to ends.
Explanation:
No other anatomist tried a brain dissection before the narrator's attempt because people's brains did not have any problems back then. When the computing power of the people's brains started slowing down, it was then that the scientist decided to dissect the brain to investigate the reason why this was happening.