Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-18

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OPEN TO !asPEcrlo4 "A greet curiosity ms on Iue6
day exhibited to the studentS Of the piy FsitY
zeal college Id New YDff at hick t6e "a ~ s
1t was q case Of efficiency Of the stefnlm reast
bone) which enables the several movements &c the
heart 70 DC seen It has excited intense interest m
several years past throughout the cities Of Europe
and Britain. The subject of the defect IS very in
teillgent gentleman, M. Groux, native of Hamburg
twenty eight years of age somewhat under the av-
erage height and rather pale though he appears to
De IN health The collar bones are not connected
either are the ribs to their opposites but there is
q groove where the sternum should be the skin is
natural In its natural state this groove is about an
inch and half wide but it be distended to three
1ncnes On looking at the groove pulsatile swell
ing is dscernable opposite the third and fourth ribs
II respiration be suspended, it rapidly rises to an
enormous extent, and remains full and tense until
the breathing is restored when it soon SUBSIDIES
Ihls Is the heart Between the clavicles there is
anot9er pulsatile swelling, easily felt which is the
aorta the great artery from the heart The dilation
ana contraction of the lung is also seen. In cough
ing the right lung suddenly protrudes from the
ches1 through the groove, and ascends considera
ole distance above the right clavice into the neck.
Mr.. Groux remembers being taken by his family
doctor to medical society in Hamburg when about
two years old but he did not know for what; nor
dd the FULL Importance of his to him till
ne was over twenty years of age. In 1S49 while
oh VieiI " LoHuOn, ne was attacked with cholera,
and then it was that his defect was made known to
the profession. He was shown to several distin-
gulshed medical gentleman great curiosity, and
was,dysed to travel through Europe for the benefit
of the profession Not long after, while attending
to his business, which was very combining, he was
attacked with haemoptisis (spitting of bloody He
then concluded to abandon his occupation and follow
the suggestions often made to him, viz: to travel
and show himself to the medical men of the coun-
tries of Europe, Britain, and now America. He has
an album of two Volumes which are nearly filled
with the autographs of the chief members of all the
important medical societies and universities of Eu-
rope, from Petersburgh to Madrid, and from Vienna
to Galway, tesfyng to their great interest in the
case The signatures of professors and celebrities
who have examined him number over two thousand.
His case is most remarkable one, and is a rare op-
portunity for studying, cisu, the actions of the
heart, great vessels and lungs It solves several
doubtful questions in regard to the action of the
heart and gives quite vivid an idea of the great
strength and vigorous movements of the Little life
machine" as if the ribs were cut away and it ex-
posed more vivid indeed for in the latter case there
would be no action such as is now plainly visible
under all conditions Of the system, beneath only
thin veil of flesh.