The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-02
NUMBER 6.
4 WONDERFUL STORI.

Last summer young New Yorker MANI
ed Henderson swallowed a cheny-Stone.
At the end of a week he was seized with
violent pains in the stomach, and could
get no relief, Ii was pifiable to witness
his sufferings, So INTENSE and excfuciating
did they appear To be- The young man
continued to suffer and grew thinner and
paler day by day. At the end of SIX v eeks
he had become 80 feeble that he WIS CONT
PEELED to leave his business and coniine
himself to- bed. His physicians did not
understand the case. The symptomS were
entirely unique lie said that he expert
enced a sensation as IL something were
gradually spreading among and tying up
his intes1ines The physicians ailivrd at
the conclusion that he VS. afflicted with
worms, and treated him accordingly, but
with no effect.
Whatever the disease was. IL seemed to
battle the phaimacopeia. aud the i"ejoIs
and the heaTt-broken mother were obliged
to stand idly by aud see young Heudei son
die before their eyes. Ia the meantime
his sufferngs increased. Sleep was al
most a stranger to him, and lie complained
more and more OF the peculiar feeling Of a
vitality in the intestines, distinct Gom his
own. After lying for four months, he
died i'm great agony. Weak as he was. lie
seemed to be possessed Of fictitious
strength aud at the time Of his exeitiuns
in the paroxysms of agony TO which he
was subj cted, two men could with diff
Guilty hold him on the led. After Young
Henderson death the case had excited so
much attention i'm medical circles the con-
sent OF the mother was obtained to an au-
topSy being made upon the body. Invita-
tions were sent t. several physicians oC the
city and the inves; igation commenced Of
what was 20 be a cause celcbre in medical
history. On opening the body. incredible
as IL may appear. it Was discovered that
the cherry stone had sprOuted IN the stou-
ach of tie unfortunate Young man. The
assembled doctors could hardly credit the
testimony of their own eyes, palpable al
though it was before them. BY some pc
cuhaI process :he cherry-stone, after hav-
ing became lodged in young HenderSon's
stomach, had actually sprouIed as thrifty
as if it bad been planted in the ground.
The strange pains OF the young man
were now accounted for, for proceeding
from the cherry stone were shoots of tibres
which had ra;nitied through The iutesiiues
of the victim. and, i'm some instances. had
coiled themselves tightly around them.
In the vicinity of she heart were a Mum
ber of these shoots, and one Of them, iargar
than the rest. in pressing upon this organ,
had been the immediate cause of death.
of these shoots there were ia u fnuIteen.
varying in length from three 10 nlne inch
es. In color they were white, with faint,
yelicwish green tinge towards the base.
The shoot which had pressed against
young Henderson heart was couside rab'y
thicker and lal ger than the rest, and had
peculiar reddish tinCe. which the othe rs
had not. The shoots were SO closely
winded and twisted around the inteStines
that It was found impossible to remove
them, and so they have been preserved TO
science. The ease, however. was so entire
ly sue geR6Fis that in all probability full
and scientific account of il will be written
and published 10y the physicians aud sur
geons interested in it.-N. J. Mercury.