Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-03-23
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 place. pl~>Sos dis W .So support him- VI, ck, Nnd was troablcd M. XtcultA 4 f hrca fhtnu and

an irfita6nity or teuRer that made i'll
 at times almost impoAiblc to livswith
 him. NotwithstandinS these symp-
 toms of complicated diseases, he took
 considerable interest in sAnitaryNRffsirs, and deviseda scheme forthe eGcient. drainage ofthc city by means of
 vast system sbf subterranesn streets,
 twelve feet Nde on both sidcsetlc
 main street, %aulted and ventilated.
 with a stream of water running in the 1 middle of them, and an ample side
 walk. He vas genius in short, and
 besides his bye for the fine arts, he
 had invented an organ of vast propor- tions. which will play unaided the
 whole music of several operas. Like
 alj who had gone before him, however,
 he had his death hday, and watched his last few daysof sickness with a very
 uncommon interest, so much so as to
 attract the attention of his family. It
 came out afterward that the physician
 had tried to persuade him to give up
 his body to the surgeons for dissection,
 his complaints being so unusual and
 some ofhis symptoms new to science,
 so much so as to induce the supposi-
 ton of some internal organic malfor-
 nation. The old gentleman had no
 objection to offer on his own account,
 but thought that the fact should be kept from the knowledge of his wife and family. So at last he died, and the physician who attended, and is at the llead of one ofour medical colleges also, made arrangements with resur-
 rection man to steal the body on the
 night of it's interment and carry it to the hospital--all of which happened without any misadventure. The family physician was present at the dissection of the body, and undertook to demon- strate upon it. When the sternum was devided the amazing discovery was made that the. heart and liver had changed places, the heart being on the right side and the liver on the left. This change in the two great vital or gans, changed also the position of the orther organs, and caused an extension of some of the vital duets. Nature had created order out of disorder, so that there need be no serious inter- ruption to the vital functions.
 The position of the heart and its was simply reversed. The upper border of the heart was just below iihe that wouldunite the third costa. cartridges, and the appey to the inter-space De- tween the cartridges of the fifth and sixth ribs, nearly two inches below inc right nipple, which is precisely Us place and adjustment in its natusai state oil the left side. The two a,iri- cles, which have no connection With each other naturally in adults. were in this case connected, and there was a very small aperture of communication with the ycntrices. instead of q large and ample one. In the left anricle, which, if the heart had been on the other side, would have been the right laricle. the Eustaclian valve. which Is | relic of the fetal heart, was large instead of being much diminished, as is usually the case in adults; and the fossa ovalis, which is usually q simple depression of the interauricular walls, the opening in the fetal heart allowing ! mixture of the black and red blood, was large. The heart was six inches and an eighth iu leugth, and three and in breadth, and nearly three in the autero- -posterior diameter.
 After the demonstration, which we have only given a slight glimpse of, the heart was removed, and. when weighed, fDund to be equal to thirteen usual average weight be- ng from ten to twelvc, and Rouillaud says only eight ounces.
 The liver occupied the heleftinstead of the right hypochondriac and epigastric regeions, below the diagram --above the stomach duodenum, and ef the colon. gall bladder, and left kidney. The upper surface was good deal fattencd. The periteneum, which divided the organ into two unequal parts, was much decayed, and the left lobe was the largest. The fourth lobe in front of the transverse Assure, the gall bladder lying between it and the Iobulns caudatus, was also much dis. easca.
 The entire demonstration has been carefully recorded for the benefit of science, and Dr., the physician, has sent q minute account of it to the Lancet. Such a case WAS nev- or heard of before in human history, and it shows how wonderfully nature ,rranges her physiological steps so as Q get the grcates. happiness for men 1ut-of them.