The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-02-14
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larged and the brush extracted. Five
weeks Latter the openings had all
healed and the patient was restored
to perfect health.
DR.. John B. Tyler, of Kansas, Mo,
relates q case Of man who, after
arising in the morning. blew his nose
violently, and to his horror his left
eye popped out Of the socket. With
the assistance of his wife it was i'm
medfately replaced and q bandage tied
firmly over it He then saw DR.. Tyler,
who found the upper lid much swollen
and slightly discolored, but there was
no hemorrhage.
RESULTS OF COUGHING.
An English jury. some years ago,
wrestled with the question whether a
man can cough himself to pieces. Ev-
idence was adduced to show that un-
der certain abnormal conditions Of
health bones may be broken during
life by muscular efforts or by violent
coughing. In the case that was sub
mitted to the jury it was proven that
the patient, who at the time the aeci-
DENT occurred was an inmate Of an
infirmary, had, owing to violent and
prolonged fit Of coughing, fractured
several ribs.
SWALLOWING THE TONGUE.
Cases of suffoeatien from worms In
the air passages sometimes occur. 4
boy. years old, vomited a long,
round worm. In the following night
the child vomited again, and was then
seized with an attack of suffocation.
in which he died At the autopsy.
worm was found in the air passage
or tube, doubled on itself and entirely
obstructing the air passage.
Swallowing the tongue is another Of
the strange accidents that medical
men have met with, and cases are on
record where suffocation has been
these cases Of tongue swallowing oc-
CURED while the individuals were
sleeping.
Spontaneous combustion of the hui
man body is still doubted by some
medical men, yet it is conceded that
there occasionally occurs an abnor-
mally increased combustibiEty OF the
body, which may account for cases OF
alleged spontaneous ignition.
In q work on spontaneous eombus-
ton DIR. Ogden asserts that of thirty
five authors who have treated Of this
subject five were entirely sceptical.
three believed In Increased eombusti-
bility only and twenty-seven believed
in spontaneous ignitability as well
THOSE MOST IN DANGER.
To burn the, human body. under or
binary circumstances, is we'll known
to ba no easy matter. What, then, is
it that occasionally imparts to it 90
abnormal a susceptibility to flame?
Here medical theories are still at
fault. Liebig found that flesh saturat-
I'd in alcohol would burn only until
the alcohol was consumed.
( The attention Of heavy weight"
members of the community is called
20 the fact that it is generally the fat,
,lderly, alcoholic subjects that have
been shown to manifest abnormal
combustibility.
DR.. Clendenen, coroner OF La Sale
county, Ill, relates peculiar case OF
spontaneous combustion. He was tel
ephOned to go to Seneca, village IN
he county, to hold an inquest on the
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. R., who were
found dead in their farmhouse. On
arrival he impanelled a jury OF the
most intelligent citizens, one OF whom
vas q physician.
The frstEthing that attracted special
attention was the peculiar sickening
odor which pervaded everything in
and about the large frame farmhouse
where the deaths had occurred Both
The man and the woman, and more es-
peciaIly the woman, were addicted to
he excessive use of whisky. The
nan was. found lying dead on the
door by his bed in the room adjoining
The kitchen. In the kitchen all the
furniture was found in it's usual place.
A tallow candle on the table, one
!hird burned, appeared to have been
sxtinguished by Mrs. R., as it was her
custom to be the. last to retire A hole
was found burned through the kitchen
| fioor about two and one-half by three
| ceet square.
ASTONISHING DISCOVERIES.
Upon examining this opening in the
| door a mass OF cinders was discovered
| IN the ground beneath. Upon exam
| ming them they found the skull, the
l spinal bones of the neck and half OF
| The spinal bones Of the back, which
! had become reduced almost to cinders.
| They also found part of the thigh
| bone and q large part Of the hip bone,
and these also were almost burned to
l cinders.
The feet were found in the shoes
the left one reduced to einder and
che shoe partially calcined. The 9TH
ar foot and shoe were reduced TO
complete cinder The other parts Of
the body were reduced to a very light
cinder, leaving no shape Of the formei
body. The clothing was entrelJ
burned.
The woman had weighed 1S(
pounds. The remains, however. aftel
having been gathered together. wert
placed in q box that would hold les
than bushel. The entire remain:
weighed twelve pounds.
The evidence disclosed the fact tina
the woman had been habitua
drinker, had drunk more than a guar
| Of whisky during the previous day
and was intoxicated when last seel
alive, ait 8 o'clock at night 1t ap
ipeared as If she had burned on tn
floor without struggle
Why, however, the floor did no
continue to burn was mystery In
pine joist against which the remaining
I o,ndor. Law WAS 'sliphtlv charred, ant