The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
ROAMING HEARTS.
Strange Instances of the Frisky Nature
of That Organ.

OF Ihat organ.
The human heart has been up to some
queer freaks of late in various parts OF
fthe United States. Indiana leads, as
she usually does, in the matter OF
freaks. In the town of Anderson i'll
that lively commonwealth, lives one
John Reville, an enterprising and hard
working baker. 1t was Revilles good
or pad fortune, as he looks at it, to WOO
AND win Mary Hastings, esteemed by
mahy of the youths of Indiana. When
the engagement of the baker to Mary
twas announced there was much anger
among the girls less favored suitors.
q Henry Jameson, who had felt certain
of Mary's affections, did not content
himself with mere words. He lay in
wait for Reville on the night of Janu-
airy 80, and when the happy lover left
the house of his fiancee Jameson rushed
on him and, pressing pistol to Re-
ville's heart, pulled the trigger. That
would have been the end of Reville had
he been like other people. But it hat!
happened during a recent illness his
heart had shifted from the left to the
right side, so that the bullet that was to
have ended his life sped harmlessly be-
tween his seventh and eighth ribs, and
10 day he is about again almost as well
:. r ever, and preparing for the wedding
(.As for jameson, he is in Jail, thanking
his stars, now that his jealousy has
cooled down, that nature helped him to
scape the gallows.
Almost as queer is the case of Marion
Gilmore, of Chicago Marion is young
woman of 10, and is employed as
saleswoman in dry goods store. No
one ever suspected that there was any
thing wrong with her heart until the
other day, when she underwent an ex-
animation by the medical examiner of
life insurance company. The med
ical man found that Marion had been
born with proper enough heart, but
it had gradually worked its way over
from the left to the right side, being To-
Gated now close to the ribs, in the place
where the liver ought to be.
Miss Hattie Benedict has a heart that
for months past has been in a state of
transit, moving from it's normal posi-
ton toward the right side and up and
down and then back again. Miss Ben
edict lives in Marengo, Wayne county,
this state. Four months ago she fell
into a trance that lasted until few
days ago, when she practically regained
consciousness. DR.. William Hubbell,
who had her in charge, said the first
words she uttered were:
Il am alive. Please do not bury me-"
Then she passed her hand to her
right side and declared that her
"heart' was hurting her. DR.. Hubbell
made an examination and found that
the heart had shifted fully four inches
to the right and two inches upward.
The doctor was by no means surprised,
us the heart had been guilty of similar
| eccentricity three times during the
trance condition. Each time the organ
went back to its old position, and DR..
Hubbell declares there is no danger to
be apprehended. He can give no reason
the strange phenomenon.
Elmer Harris heart began to change
two years ago. Harris lives in Mime
apolis, and the doctors there have been
| keeping close watch on him. They say
that every three months Harris heart
has moved half an inch with absolute
regularity in diagonal line toward the
lower right side of the body. The move
ment seems to take place in jumps tina
occur toward the end of every third
month. When the migration is going
to stop is a problem that is filling the
unfortunate owner of the heart with
much uneasiness. His general health
does not seem to have been affected, and
he says he feels no pain. He never
knows that his heart has shifted until
the doctors tell him so after each move.
Here in New York city DR.. Cyrus Ed
son has a queer case in one of the pa
tients whom he has treated for con-
sumption with his famous remedy
The patient had lost one lung, the
had been given up as hopeless
case by a half dozen physicians. DR.;
Edison himself had but little hope of eff
fecting cure, as the left lung had been
attacked. But he gave the patient the
usual hypodermic injections, and to
everyone's surprise the man recovered.
To-day he is apparently as well as
ever he was, though he has but one
lung. But strange thing has hap
pened. In accordance with natures
usual law of compensation by which
one organ that has to perform the
functions of two is correspondingly
strengthened the patients remaining
lung has been very much enlarged. So
great has this enlargement become
that the heart has been displaced, and
row beats about the middle of the
mans body.-N. Y. Journal.
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