The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-04-04
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From tue New YORK sunday Mercury.
A Wonderful Story.

Last summer young New York
er, named Henderson, swallowed u
cherry -stone. At the end OF II week
he was seized with violent pains IN
the stomach, anil could obtain no
relief. 1t WAS pitiablo to witness
his sutferings, so intense ami excrn~
ciating did they appear to be' The
young man continued to suffer, and
grew thinner and p,ler day by day
At tho end of six weeks he had be-
come SO feeble that he was comrell-
cd to leave his business and cun!ine
himself to bed. His physicians did
not understand the case The symp'
toms war. entirely uIills. IL, sul
that he experienced sensation as If
something were gradually spread
ing and tying up his intestines
The physicians arrived at the con-
clusion that he WAS afflicted with
worms, aud treated him Accord igly,
bnt with no effect. Whatever the
disease was, it seemed to baills the
pharmacopoeia, and the doctors and
the heart broken mother were
obliged to stand idly by and see
young Henderson die before their
eyes In the meantime, his snifer
|ings increased. Sleep was almost a
stranger to him, aud he complained
more aud more of the peculiar feel
ing of q vitality in the intestines,
distinct from his own. After lying
for four months, he died in great
agony. Weak as he was, ho seemed
to DO possessed of fictitious
strength, aud at the time of his ex'
ertions in the paroxysms of agony
to which he was subjected two men
with difficulty hold him on tho bed.
After young Henderson death, the
case had excited 80 much attention
in medical circles, the consent of the
mother was obtained to an autopsy
being made upon the body. Invita-
tions were sent to several physicians
of the city. aud the investigation
commenced OF what was to be Il
cause celebre in medical history. On
opening the body, incredible as it
may appear, it was discovered that
the cherry stone had sprouted in the
stomach OF the unfortunate young
man. The assemble doctors could
hardly credit the testimony OF their
own eyes, palpable although it was
before them. by some peculiar pro
cess the cherry-sto after having
become lodged in yonng Hender-
sons stomach, had actually sprouted
as thrifty rs il it had been planted
in the ground. The strange pains
of the young man were nov ac-
counted for, for preceding from the
cherry stone were shoots OF fbers
which had ramifed through the in
testines OF the victim, and, in some
Instances, had coiled themselves
tightly around them. In the vicini-
ty OF the heart there were number
OF these shoots, and one OF them
larger than the rest, in pressing up
on this organ, had been the imnedi-
ate cause of death. Or these shoots
there were in all fourteen, varying
in length from three to nine inches
In color they were white, with a
faint, yellowish green tinge towards
the base. The shoot which had
pressed against young Henderson, :
heart was considerably thicker aud
larger than the rest, and had a
peculiar reddish tinge, which the
Others had not. The shoots were @
closely twined and twisted around
the intestines that it vas found i'm
p ,ssible to remove them, and 90
they have not bssn preserved to SCI
ence. The case. however was 20 en-
tisrly sui generis that in all proba'
|bility full aud scientific account oi
it will be written and published by
the physicians and Surgeons utter
estsd in IT,