The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-02
ANATOMICAL PHENOMENON
4 Remarkable Case of Bone Yielding to
 The Influence of imagination.

A Remarkable Case of Bone Yielding to
 The Influence of imagination.
 Scienuhc publications are filled with articles, showing what a powerful isfiu- enoe the imagination, when unhealshiully exercised, can have over the body. A very remarkable case. ia this relation. has just become known to the medical fraternity cf Arkansaw. Mr. K. k. Whapple, a well known cotton speeulasor. suddenly conceived the idea tha, his ', sht leg had grown loager than the left He laughed a, the peculiarly oi such a conoeit, but noticed, as he walked along the street, that he was higher when he put down his night foot. He smiled al the idea, but his mind was 10, ., ease. and. shortly afterwards. meeting a physi- clan. asked;
 Say, doctor. did you ever hear of a mans right leg growing longer than the lefs s'
 "Weil," said the doctor, as,onished at the absurdity of such question, never knew of one leg being longer than the other unless It was caused by some breakage or disease of the bone"
 This satisfied Mir. Whapple for some time, but at night. when he vent to bed, he could feel the right leg growing. and along about twelve o'clock. he va. startled to find his night foot braced against the foot board of the bed, while, even with the utmost endeavor he could no, hold his right ieg stiff and touch the board with his lei foot. He arose early at morning and made the honiiying dis covery that his right leg was at least two inches loager than the ieft. This threw him into fever. He had ever been proud of his appearance, and the knowl- edge of saoh deformisy at once began to cut and slash at his constitution. phy- sicians were summoned, and when the Ill man, in delinum, muttssed something about the abnormal length of his right ieg. one of the doctors measused it with . tape line and found that there were six inches for which there was no satisfactory explanation. One doctor attempted to account for the extra six inches by as- serting that Mir. Whapple must have contracted the habit of sanding on his ieft foot while examining cotton, and de- ciared that he had seen many a cotton buyer on one leg, but the other phy- slcians, though they listened respectfully were not suppossd to concur in the state ment.
 Mir. Whapple was for more than five | weeks ooo6ned to his bed. The right leg continued to grow, until place sos the calf of his leg to rest had to be sawed in the foot board. The foos pro- ruded 70 far after awhile that the doctors would hang their coats across the shin bone.
 Finally the poor gentleman recovered his health, but he could not walk withou, carrying the left foot on a sasp-iaddes The leg continued to grow until ampusa. tion was deemed necessary. The doctor, declared that they would have to cut of al least three fees.
 "i don't sec how you ean ges thres fees od one leg said Mir. Whapple.
 This proved that the growth of his mind had not been % extensive as the growth of his leg.
 Nov, it has been discovered that az amputation every two months vill b> necessary. and that in the course of q yer, Mir. whapple wiil throv oG say about sixteen or eighteen tees of leg, te be governed of eourse by the growing condition of the season. Dr. Calmaszs, says that shosld the nexi ysss be favors. ble and not subjected to dsoush, Mir Whapple may expect to realize as Ieas' swenty iees of ieg.