The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-02-22

lieht II cne q DE fashionable boarding.
houses sffuAfed On Twenty third st1eel.
next door 70 The Catholic Church Of St
Vincent de Paul. Waahinetrn and his
cherry Tree haye been 0utdO0e. md the
fscfs ue 70 curious = to give them almost
the color Of fiction; yet they are v0uched
fos By responsible parties, Who have
studied the phenomenon from il incep-
ton Last summer . bright, healthy
Young man, residing in the house IN
question, partOok freely of cherry pie, >
dish of which he was exceedingly fond,
and. BY some inadyeftence, swallowed
q cherry stone. BE thought nothing Of
the occurrence 1t the time, as it
caused him no material Inconvenience;
but at the end Of . week or ten days
he was seized with violeuf pains in the
stomach, from which the simple remedies
q hand offered him NO relief. II W1s
pifiable TO witness his sufferings, 20 intense
and exczucisfing did they sppear 10 be.
The Young man continued to suffer. and
grew thinner and thinner day by day.
At the end of sig weeks he hsd become
50 feeble that he was compelled to leave
his business and confinc himself y bed.
His mother, m estimable lady, who re-
sided in the interior Of the State, was sent
for and nursed him ssziducusly day and
night The most discOursgiDg thing IN
the whole case was that none Of the
physicians who were called in could de-
termine the character of his disease. The
symptoms were entirely unique The
young man, whose name was Henderson
the Christian name being withheld Al
the request of relAtives-said that he
experienced a sensation IS if some.
thing were gradually spreading among and
tying mp his intesfines- The physicians
arrived at the conclusion that he was If
fiicted with worms, and treated him &C
cordIngIy, but with no effect. Whatever
the disease was, it seemed to battle the
pharmacopeia, and the doctors and the
heart broken mother were Obliged to stand
idly by and see young Henderson die be
fore their eyes In the meantime his
suffering increased Sleep was almost q
stranger to him, and he complained more
and more of the peculiar feeling of 8
vitality in the intestines distinct from his
own. After lying for four months, ht
died in great agony. Weak As he was, ht
seemed to be possessed of . fictitiou:
strength, and at the time of his exertions
in the paroxysms of agony to which hs
was subjected, two could with difficulty
hold him on the bed. After youn1
Henderson's death, the case had excitet
so much attention in medical circles, TIL
consent of the mother was obtained 10 al
autopsy being made upon the body. In
yitations were sent to several physician.
of the city, and the investigation com
menced Of what was to be cause ce1ebr,
in medical history On opening the body
incredible as il may appear, it was dis
cosered that the cherry stone had sproutet
| in the stomach of the unfortunate youn.
man. The assembled doctors could hardl,
credit the testimony of their own eyes
| paIpable although It was before them. B,
some peculiar process the cherry stone, afte
having become lodged in young Hender
sons stomach, had actually sprouted a
thrifty as if it had been planted in tn,
ground. The strange pains in the youn,
man were now accounted for, for proceed
| ing from the cherry stone were shoots o
fibers which had ramified through the il
| testines of the victim, and, in some in
| stances, had coiled themselves Tight,
around them. In the vicinity of tn
shoots, and one Of them, larger than tn
IeSt, In pressing ulOu kuAS O4yAH, Hds
been the immediate cause of death. O
these shoots there were in all fourteen
varying in length from three to min
| inches. In color they were white, witt
faint yeliowish- green tinge toward tb
base. The shoot which had pressed agains
young Henderson's heart was considers
bly, thicker and larger than the rest, an,
had q peculiar reddish tinge, which th
others had not. The shoots were s
closely twined and twisted around the in
testines that it was found impossible I
remove them, and so they have not bee
preserved to science The case, however
was so entirely sui generis that in al
probability full and scientific account o
| 1t will be written and published by tn
physicians and surgeons interested in il
What has been recorded here is q plain
unvanished statementof fact, stripped G
all technicalities or speculations. IN. 7
Mercury.