The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-06-01


what WIS impossiH!y with others.
|" is altogether possible that he W..
at once pat nnaer training for IT,
purpose pf future exhibition. The
history OF circus .triinct cNili:un,
rs us wei rs those who devote tne.r
ilTes to <:yn:l.stic Or theatvi" i per--
iormHnrca. proves the wonderful
elasticity developed in the ligaments,
muscles, blood~vesscls, nerves, and,
in fact, all the tissues of tho body.
The key to this negro's achieve
mcnts are: 1. He does possess the
power Of controlling for II few
seconds at tho time the muscu-
lar action of the heart. 2. By a
gift Of nature, as we'll as constant
practice during his whole life, no
possesses greater power over the
voluntary muscles tnan any human
being L ever saw. The solu-
ticn to tho seeming transportation
OF his heart to the two points in
the abdomen, as well rs to Tho
liYlt siie, is accounted fer by me in
this way "lIe, he it remembered,
always goes through with his mus
cuEr Exercises first, and as there 6
Naturally an exl53erLtel arJurl.l
sound, even when calm, all over tho
abdomen, it is enormously increased
by cxe.;iop. His power to arrest
INC musrul.,r l. action of the heart
produces diiatltion throughout tho
si,c.lti system, and trls having
been pract'sed and persisted in so
many yelrs f%s iLcle.seu the di-
mcAslons Of { he arteries. Where
there is no muacular pi cssuro this
obtains in toe chest and abdomen,
and honuo the external lliacs are
MANY times larger than in the aver
ago adult. AS he has the power of
throwing the external and internal
obilque muscles in the shape Of
con~n, t1e exaggerated sound of the
H.pidsy pu.satlnt llI; c is concentrated
40 che point, he having by this pro
ce FLO uca.i IL perfect vacu I'M. In
t.e f'.,"6 Guest tAis eXI5ytrA'e
sound is PRODUCED by the lusn of
Oiloi through t.e arch Of the aJrSl
lis we'll as botn the subclavians,
ani concentrated on their right by
a peculiar TWIST Of his boIy, lie
havin,, ~ many years practice,
clQnS4ted tho MSAmunts at Doth
enls Of the ribs. TAs concentration
Of sound at ono point in the cavities
OF the body wheie there is a vacuum
is illustrated in thr peculiar ripping
sonul produced by shaking a patient
with hyd drothorax; also when once
heard, the never-t to -be-forgotten,
met.tlic sound produced When mat
ter, pus, is dropping from the su-
pc' ior to the inferior part of
cavity in phthisis. These Sounds are
not produced il tho open uir. The
evidences t;,at this negro has no
power to move his heart ale mani
:o-d. |. While the muscular con.
fractions Of the heart are arrested,
AMI While you hear the sounds he
S! US are tnoso of his heart, on either
side of the abdomen or in the right
side Of the chest, y,,,t cun disti,,ctiu
heur the b'ood passing through the
hca't IN It's "ornsot place. 2. You
her neither at the points in the
abdomen nor in the right side G.;
the chest t'oo 0istinct first and
second beats Of tho heart. You
hear .erlibio rippling, jingling,
Jumping, reminding one Of The con.
ohtlon OF a train Of cars when the
brakes are not ju liciously applied.
3. If be could move the heart to the
points under discussion, he could
neither have a diaphragm nor per-
icardium, AMI further, We would
not only have to account for the
unheard-of elasticity of the arch of
the aorta, but of I'LL the blood
vessels given off above the heart, as
we'll as the wonderful pressure the
brain tissue would sustain in con-
sequence Of such great tension Of the
arteries within tho cranium. This
CO. tainly could not be compatible
with the presence of mind possessed
,'by this man. q. Ii it wero possible
to move tho heart a0 Hbituna to diff
fcrent parts of the cavities
i.of the body without peri
cardium, he certainly would,
from time to time, sustain sucn IN
amount of inflammation Of this organ
that long ere this it would have
. Terminated in death. s. If he had
no .luphragm his breathing would