The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-24
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A Man with . Portable Heart, Revolv
ing Bowels, and Two Sets OF Ribs.
rp,om the Port Jery1s Tri-States Union.l

Man with q Portable Heart, tteVoiV"
ing Bowels, and Two Sets OF Ribs.
From the Port Jeryis Tri-States Unionl
The most remarkable specimen OF physical
organization we have ever seen ID Mr.. George
Thomas, q Brazilian, who has been in Port
Jervis since Thursday 81 last ss-; WEEK r,a ns mas ~
the village, and has puzzled not only the !peo~.
Die but the Physicians and surgeons they are
unable to understand his anotomy. He can
move his heart to any part Uthe body at pleas
ure and even stop its beating TOR nearly Sky
soconds. He has two sets OF ribs, one OF Whloh
he can move from Its position to the 'front.' OF
rey6tyfSe motion or the Bowels, both upward
and downward, the abdomen undulating and
resembling the ~corrugatlng motions OF a nag
or a piece OF cloth when disturbed by the WIND.
ia Can "a arrest his pulse that for 8 short
time one cannot discern that ne has any.
Another wonderful thing he does is to bend an
iron bar fyc-eights Of an inch In thickness py
his ar@he so contracts that the assh feels as
hard "a wood. ~
M. Thomas is certainly q wonderful speci-
men OF physissl construction, and he has ipuz-
1led the scientific men Of the world. AZ our
request he called IN our Office yesterday and
gave US bis history. from Which We glean the
HsJ1as bornin Brazil, South America, the
4th Of March, 1890: -His-fsther was an Ethiop-
isnaud hin mother q Spanish woman. When
fonr wears old he wac taken to London, Eng
land. by his mother, and was there examined
by Surgeon Kent. The latter took him to
Edinburgh, Scotland, where he made an ID els.
ion near the heart, and discovered that he had
no diaphragm, and that the heart was not en-
cioeed ma pericardium,- but iss suspended: by
fNocords1nSte3d Of one. Some years after
wards he was given . like examination IN Parls
by Surgeon Louis, and with same resuit.
None,of the scientific men OF Europe under
stood hiEstructure, and they advised h!m 70
come to America and see II our learned men
could comprehend his formation. But no one
here had before seen such a creature, and coald
mot understand his organization. 1t vas 1858
Vhen IA came hare, and1n 1866 he went back
TO Eorope. In 1867 he was at the Paris Exposl-
tiop and was examined by several eminent sur
eeons, Among them Professor Smith, OF Baiti-
more Since that year he has been in this
country. His home is in England, and ne says
he likes ha. country much better than this =
there he is treated aa q gentleman, here ias q
vurthless. travelling vagrant- he Ia not mar
RED. and his parents are now dead. He has
. hrother who is SIX feet three inches in height,
INT uho can contract himself so that he 10 but
thraa feet three inches tall. This is his only
nocnjiariby.l There was nothing remarkable
sb6atf their mother, but the father was appar-
emtfy destitute Of ribs. The latter at one time
a treat many years ego-Worked upon the
Erie canal and lived in Lockport. George mas
q cousin Who can throw his LETT hip to nus
font Md md vice versa. The former as In
GOOD health. weighs .oneh hundred and sl1ty-nve
pouuds, Ii sbout6 i've feet eight lnchesl II nelgnS'
md, appears TO be not over thirty years oio'i