The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-22
A CHERRY TREE IN ms srO1TAcIT.

a CHERRY TREE IN HIS STOMACH.
AWFUL FATE OF A YOUNG HEw. yaaKRa
| Ike SWALLOWS A CHERRY. STONE.
WHICH SPROUTS AND GROWS INTO ms
HEART. 80 @Et
A very singu1ar case has lately come 10
light in one of the fashionable boarding
houses situated on Twenty-third street.
next door to the Catholic charch OF Sc.
Vincent de Paul, says d New York paper.
Warrington and his cherry tree have
been. outdonc, and the facts are 80 curious
as to gis them alm cGt the color of fiction:
yet they are youched for by responsible
parties, who have studied the phehonie.
non f.c.:: its inception Lest I.s.s,s. s;:::sss;- .
bright, healthy young man, residing in
the house in question, partook freely of
cherry pie, dish Of which he was seq, eK-
ceodingly fond, and, by some inadver-
tance, swallowed a cherry stone. z He
thought nothing of the occurrence at the
time, as it caused him no material incon-
yeniencc; but at the end ,of a week or
ten days be was seized with violent pains
in the stomach, from which the simple
remedies at hand offered him NO. relief
1t was pitiable to witness his si,fferings,
so intense and excruciating did they ap-
pear to be. The young man continued to
suffer, and grew thinner and paler day by
day AT the end ofIBixaveeks ne had
become so feeble thatrhe was &C apelled
70 leave his business and pogfine, himself
10 Ued. His mother, an estimable lady,
who resided in the Interior Of the State,
was'sent for and nursed hirl assiduously
day and night. The most disconraging
thing. In the whole case was ;thnt none of
tiie physicians who were called in could
determine the character Of his disease.
III, Ihe symptoms were entirely Unique
the young man whose name was Hen
deraon-the Christian name being, with
held at the request of relatives tl,nt
he had experienced d sensation as ii' sone-
thing were gradually spreading anioi1p
and tying up his intestines. > h The pLysi.
1inna arrived at the conclusion that he
was afflicted with worms, and treated him
accordingly, bnt with no effect. What
ever the disease was, it seemed to battle
the pharnacopmia, and the: doctors and
the heart-br0ken mother were oblirhed
to stand idle and sec young Henderson
die beIore their eyes. In the meantime
his suffering Increased. Sleep was almost
stranger to him, and he complaided
more and moro of the peculiar sealinatof
o vitality in the intestines, distinctlfToin
his own, After lying four; months, he
died in great agony. s't'fs'@
Weak as he wds, he seemed 10 be pos.
sessed of fictitious strength, and atSthe.
time OF his exertions in the paroyyslngof
agony to which he was subject, two could
with difficulty hold him on the bed. Af-
tel. young Henderson's death, the case
had excited so much attention irfmedical
circles, the: consent of:theAmother was
obtained to an autopsy being made upon
the body. Invitations were sent to sew
eral physicians ofthe city, and the 'irves-
tigation commenced of what was to be a
cause celobrerin medical histDrg. ION
opening the, body, incredible. cs It NAV
anpear, it was discovered that the cherry
stone had sprouted in the stomactt OF TIE
unfortunate young man. The assembled
dnctnra cen cred: th; .s sss.s
OF thelr,own, eyes, palpable although it
was before them,l BY some pecIliar pro-
cess the cherry stone, after having become
lodged in young Henderson's stomach,
actually sprouted as thrifty as if it had
been planted inttho ground Faeatrange
pains In tho your & man were now 40.
counted for, for proceeding from the
cherry stone were shoots of fibers which
nau ramlnedtnrcugh the lnteStines OF the
victim, and, In some instances, had coiled
themselves tightly around them. iii, the
vicinity of the heart there were % num-
Der of these shoots, and one of them,
larger than the rest, ID pressing upon
this organ, had been the immediate cause
of DEATH. OF these shoots there werein
all fourteen, varying in length from three
to nine inches. In color they were white,
with a faint yellowish green tinge toward
the base. The shoot which had pressed
against young Henderson'si heart was
considerably thicker and larger than tho
rest, and had a peculiar reddish tinge,
which the others had not. The shoots
were SO closely twined around the intes-
tines that itiwas found impossible tore,
move them, and go, they have not bean
preserved to science. The case, however.
was so entirely sisi ge,eris that in alt
. fall fall ;;stl ::;s .i tsS aoouI,
of it will be written and pnblished by Che
physicians and surgeons, interested in,i
What has been recorded here Is o plain
unvernished stateW.snt OF fact, stripped
of all technicalitie5 or specnlations.