Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-09-28
BEREFT OF BONES.
Novel Affliction of a Woman in
tennessee.
A NEW SKELETON FOR AN OLD ONE.

The Process Going on for Over Twenty
Years and stn Proceedhsg-Her Ply
stefan Watches the Operation, Which
Causes Some Pain but No Infamma-
tion, and the Wound Soon HeaIs-six
Hundred Pieces of Many Sizes and
Shapes Discarded.
BRISTOL, Tenn, Sept. 2S.-Dr B. F.
Bell, Of Parrottsville, Tenn, on Saturday
read before the East Tennessee Medical
society paper on a wonderful case of ex-
| foiiation of bones from the human body
| The victim of the peculiar disease is a
| lady named Sarah Heas, Il years of age,
residing in Caney Branch. About twen-
| ty-one years ago the doctor was first called
to his patient and since that time he has
given her ailment close attention. Dur
| ing all these years more than 600 bones
have been expelled from different parts Of
Miss Heas' body. This exfoliation, Dr.
Bell said, has taken place with little pain
and no Inflammation, and soon after the
| election of the bones the sores would
| quickly heal up and nothing then would
| be noticed till another batch of bones
would start out
| New Bones for Old Ones.
| The disease first began on the index
| finger of her left hand. Every bone in
that hand disappeared, and new ones took
| their places. The next member of the
body attacked was the arm. Then the
shoulder blade, and then the lower jaw
| bone. Some of the bones worked out
| through the throat and others penetrated
the ear. The doctor said the process
worked so rapidly that he had sat near
the n4tipDt times and che1 rms.
| bones as they came out without any assis-
lance except that of nature itself. Some
Of them were SIX inches in length and one
| Inch in diameter while others were
smaller. Trey were of every conceivable
shape. When the doctor presented them
to the fraternity for examination but few
of those present thought that they were
anything else but bones from some lower
animal.
Watched the Novel Process.
The doctor says he will send the won
| derful collection to an astrological ex
| pert for examination. 1t has been SIX
months since the first paper was read o
| the society on this remarkable case Dur
! Ing this lapse of time the election has been
| going on at a rapid pace. In the latter
| part of his paper the doctor said: Three
weeks ago | called to see the patient
| plain of severe pains in the regions of Il e
coronoid process and extending to the ear.
In less than five minutes from the begin
ming of pain section of bone from the
| lower jaw one inch long and one-fourth Of
an inch wide passed through the inter
vening flesh and presented itself entirely
| disengaged in the external left ear. Sim
ultaneous with this was a similar action
| in the right ear, accompanied with a thin
| bone"
Wonderful Phenomenon.
The doctor concluded his paper with the
! following statement: The lady has re-
sided at the same place for the past twenty
one years. She is visited by many persons
| who come to learn the whole truth OF the
case. and they all go away declaring IL at
1t is the most wonderful phenomenon that
has ever been heard of in this or any other
land. The woman travels but little and
has never been on board railroad train
| She is well connected, having relatives IN