The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28

Hess was then removed to Fruitvale 10
rest unt.l the original wound healed VI.
Dr- Deane not seeing him again until Aug
J. lie called at the house where his patient
was stopping, and found him at work in
the garden. The doctor found that heart
trouble still existed. and all the idiopathic
symptoms or mitral regurgitatiOn were
quite apparent. He insisted that Hess
should rest and continue the doses OF con-
Nsllaria maJalis. DR.. Deane did not see
MIN again until a month had passed. when
after a careful examination. he could dis
Germ not the least heart murmur. During
the thirty days preceding the heart had
returned to its normal condition Hess
stated that he had been ~ for three day.
during the middle OF the month Of August,
when he had great pain in his heart and a
rapid, irregular pulse.
Since that time CLYDE Hess has been a
well man, despite the fact that the knife
OF Bandit Sontag had punched hole in
his heart. despite the further fact that
the silver catheter of the surgeon and the
fingers of that gentleman had pushed the
heart out OF position time and time again
A peculiar feeling. Hess told his doctor.
came over him as these foreign bodies
touched the heart, rather numbing than
anything else. Last week he played lead
ing juvenile roles, and is now preparing
to go on the road with a company lie has
passed the stage where he cares TO plunge
any more daggers into himself. and has no
pleasant recollection of the last attempt
save his remarkable recovery.
That II was a remarkable recovery is
attested by the most eminent authorities
on surgery. Erickson. whose work Is q
standard in speaking Of wounds of the
heart, says. These injuries are generally
Immediately fatal from the loss of blood
and the nervous shock the patient sus-
tains- There are many cases on record
however, Of persons who have walked or
run some considerable distance after re-
ceiving a wound of the heart.
"Drs. Oliver and Samson continued
Erickson, have collated twenty ni.e
cases of penetrating wound of the heart
that did not prove fatal in the forty
eight hours after the receipt of the injury
On analysis u is found that the rapidlty
of the death depends greatly on the direc-
ton of the wound and the part OF the
organ injured. When the wound is paral-
| lei to the axis of the heart tas II was IN
the Hess case) it is not so speedily fata
as when in a transverse direction. The
wounds of the aur.cle are more imme-
diately followed by death than those OF
the ventricle."
Without referring TO numerous case:
reported by earlier surgeons there are
a sufficient number of instances reported
| by modern writer's to prove that an mol
| vidual may linger for many days and ever
recover altogether. from wounds OF the
/ heart. Latour a French army surgeon
records the case of q soldier who lived
/ for six years after having been wounded
/ with "A musket ball in the right ventricle
/ The ball was found in the heart at the pos
/ norton.
| DR.. G. Fisher an eminent German pro
| fessor. who has written an extensive
| treatise on wounds OF the heart, men
lions one case, that of bell hanger whC
/ was shot. the bullet lodging in the ven
4 tricle He lived for twenty years after the
/ shooting and a the post norton the bull
! let was found encapsuled
! These cases are not numerous enough
/ to take from the lustre of Hess's achieve
/ ment in persisting to live and grow wei
| and act strongly after the dig he gave him
self in that organ, with which actors, and
/ other people are supposed to love. He
/ remains a wonder TO the world and some
/ what of a conundrum to the doctors.