The Newtown bee., 1879-07-09
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Boy's Strange MaIady and Curious
 Cure,

Boys Strange MaIady and Curious
 Cure.
 The Chicago Telegraph says: Probably the most wonderful phenomenon thai has ever come under the observation of the medical fraternity of this city deyel- oped itself at the Montcalm House. on Erie street, in the person of a boy named Herbert G. Schwartz. Herbert is a boy of German parentage, though born near the town of Buckingham, in Tama county county Iowa. The Schwartz family consist of five persons, MT. Carl Schwartz, the father, being a man of some 90 n fifty years of age. There are four bert being the oldest child. Mrs. Schwartz has been dead several years. Schwartz senior is farmer, and we'll to-do, owning a fine prairie farm of l6O acres in llama county. Herbert has for number of years assisted at the farm work, and was, until recently, a stout. healthy and intelligent boy.
 Last April Herbert and his brother Fritz were playing together in the farms barn, having turned the horses in after days blowing. At supper that evening young Schwartz complained of a queer feeling in his chest, and coughed con siderable. Thinking that the boy had caught cold, but little attention was paid to the matter, and for the two or three succeeding days, though the cough con- tinued and he complained of an oppres- sive feeling in the left chest, his father used the simple country remedies for ordinary cold. These seemed to have a beneficial effect, for the cough left him, though he still complained of the singu- lar and unaccustomed feeling in the chest.
 In the latter part of April Herbert's appetite deserted him, and he com menced to lose flesh to such an extent that from stout, healthy farm lad he dWind1ed down to nothing more than a living skeleton.
 Various remedies were tried, and local medical advice taken. The physicians called were of the opinion that nasty consumption had set in, and but little hopes were offered of his recovery, In the latter part of last month another afflicted youths distress.
 The pain in his chest became more in tense, and added to it there was now an irritating g, tickling sensation in the throat, as though some foreign matter had lodged there that demanded removal This induced a continuous cough, until, at last, the sufferer had hardly mo- ment's release from the attack.
 Every one connected with the boy gave him up, and his family already felt that the doom of speedy demise was inevitable. With a last grasp at hope MT. Schwartz brought his son to this city and summoned the skill of Drs, Charles A. Andrews and Ernest Solo, mon to arrest, if possible, the fell destroy CT. AL first both Dr. Andrews and Dr. Solomon agreed that it was a case of nasty consumption, and extended no hopes to the distracted parent. But Friday morning, while Herbert was un- dergoing one of his worst paroxysms of coughing, light, or an intuition sud- denly forced itself upon Dr. Solomon. | Requesting the boys father to assist him, he suspended the patient by the heels ! near a window, with a strong light thrown down his throat. Without whispering his suspicious or intentions | the doctor, with the aid of instruments, made an examination of the throat, so | far as the eye could penetrate; and his | investigation was rewarded by won- | derful discovery. A foreign body was discovered partially implanted in the mucous membrane of the windpipe. Having firmly seized upon it with his | instrument, despite the struggles of the patient, Dr. Solomon drew forth a ger minated kernel of wheat, with growing stalk seven and one-quarter inches long. The stock was of brownish-red color, while the tendrils of the germinated kernel were massed in clotted blood. A violent hemorrhagee ensued, that required much trouble to check, but young Schwartz, though very weak, is now much better, and bids fair to rapidly re- cover The only explanation of this most singular incident is that Herbert swallowed grain of wheat while play ing in the barn with his brother, and that the kernal. instead of taking the natural channel, reached his left lung and there remained and sprouted It is certainly one of the most extraordinary cases on record. Dr. Solomon has pre- served the wheat in a vial, where hun dreds of the curious viewed it in his office " =.'i .=.