Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-11
NUMBER "a
I ing about nhalfwitted." She first

NJ MBER 81
ing about "half-witted." She first
was
TROUBLED WITH THE SNAKE ABOUT
FOUR YEARS AGO,
and since that time, it has cOntin-
ued to grow worse, until for the
past two years, her life has been
almost continually one of pain and
trouble. When she felt the mo-
tons of the snake in her stomach,
they were frequently percepuble
across the room, with an ordinary
bed quilt over her, and were gen
orally upon one or the other side
of her stomach. She would suf-
fer great pain and frequently so
severe, it would produce eonvul-
sions; she would lose her. mind,
and remain sometimes in a death
like state for-24 or SO hours. For
the last Is months a foreign sub
stance had, At such times as well
as others, made its appearance in
her mouth, and the same has been
seen by numbers OF people iE the
neighborhoOd. Its appeara c e
came more frequently 10 the last
SIX months, and the most of that
time she has been unable to 20
about at all, and for the past nine
weeks has been confined TO her
bed all the time would some
times SIT up in her bed OF in
char a few moments, but always
in a bending or a double position.
AZ times her
WOULD SPLIT OPEN
and the flesh upon her head split
so much it became necessary to
cut her hair off very short, in
which condition it is nov, and the
scars are perceptible to all. She
had several physicians at various
times in attendance upon her, the
last next to DIR. Burger treating
her for tape worm. and he stated
it frequently came up into her
mouth, and in published card
some time ago about It, described
it thusly " When it gets into
her mouth it expands itself, and
is half an inch across being of a
hattened shape and of a dark |
brown color. Her present ply !
stefan DIR. Burger took charge of |
her Jan. 2Sth, 1874, and at once
pronounced her afflicted with a
reptile of some character in her
stomach, and believing that, gave
her but little medicine, but when
any was given, it was of pow
erful kind and in large doses.
About five weeks before the
she discharged a dark
bloody mucous substance, of the
thickness of paper to that of one
eighth of an inch, and after it
was CONCEALED in alcohol, resem-
bled a cooked chicken liver. DIR.
Burger had impressed upon her
and all the members of her fam
ily, to be sure and catch hold
of it the next time il made its
If possible, and to
hold to it until he arrived. For [
several days previous to its ex-
traction it had held one position,
Just in the centre of the chest
with its head apparently near the
mouth of the esophagus, and its
tail at the top of her stomat b.
She frequently remarked on the
10Th it was coming up soon, and
Just after dark on that evening
as the family were seated about
the door and some of them on
the outside, she arose from her
pallet on the floor, rushed out the
west door of the cabin and in a
strangling manner run some fifteen
Dr. twenty steps and fell upon her
knees. The family supposing her
IN a spasm, ran after her, aud her
little brother reaching her irst,
called back TO his mother, that
THAT THING WAS IN SIS MOUTH"
Her step brother caught and
held her from behind, she all the
while making desperate efforts to
get loose and appeared strang
ing to death. Her mother finding
the thing" in her mouth as
hough it had come up head lore
most, and in going back the same
yaY had doubled itself making a
oop, in which she put her finger
md hold il until the DIR. came,
Vho had been sent for instantly,
md arrived in few minutes from
lis home, some 400 yards off, the
way he had to come.
The mother remembering the
Or. IS injunction, held fast, and as !
{ tried to worm itself back into the
tomach, she called upon her
laughter to close her teeth upon
/, which her daughter says she
lid, and there is certainly upon I
be snake just where she would
ave taken hold, unmistakable
igns of marks that might have !
,een made by teeth. So soon as
he DIR. arrived {
IE TOOK HOLD OF IT AND DREW IT
OUT. ;
t making efforts to get down, {
ut coming up with the use OF t
ut little strength. The snake
7as covered with a Shiny mucuous l
INSTANCE, and lived several min I
ties after it was taken out, it be- :
ng probable two causes produced {
Is death LIST, the exposing of it /
0 the air, and I'd, the grip upon C
/ by the teeth of the girl, and the
myers of the mother. Its life was
oticed by most ali of those in at :
enhance, together with the sons of a
ir. 7. S. Ford who arrived just '
fter it was taken out. /,
Since its extraction, the girl a
GEMS better than for years past, K
-alks about, goes to church, and ! 1
as a fine appetite, and, we should 7
ave said before, she had eaten o
othing, scarcely for 4 long while, '
Though she seemed but little p
maciated She says she is very C
lankful TO her Doctor for getting e
out, and thinks
He WILL STRAIN WATER WELL BE-
FORE DRINKING IN THE FUTURE, :
5 she thinks she got the snake b
Y drinking water out of a mud 4
ole, several years ago, while liv- 7
~ upon the place of Tanning :.
Ioulter, ESQ. in this county. We :