The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-19
FRISKY ORGANS.
Persons Whose Hearts Move About
in Their Bodies.
ySome Queer Gases That Have Come Under
tho Observation of Physicians
Natures Strange Com
Pensations

lC ldS DCCu up ~ oODtC
queer freaks of late in various parts Of
the United States. Indiana leads, as
;ahe usualy does, in the matter of
freaks. In the town of Anderson in
that lively commonwealth, lives one
John Reville, an enterprising and hard
working baker. 1t was Reville's good
or bad fortune, as he looks at it, to WOO
and win Mary Hastings, esteemed by
many of the youths of Indiana. When
tbe engagement of the baker to Mary
was announced there was much anger
among the girls less favored suitors.
Henry Jameson, who had felt certain
of Mary's affections, did not content
himself with mere words. He lay in
syait for Reyille on the night of Janu-
airy so, and when the happy lover left
ahehouseof his fiancee jameson rushed
on him and, pressing a pistol to Re-
wille's heart, pulled the trigger. That
would have been the end of Reville had
he been like other people. But it had
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
to-day he is about again almost as well
as 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
escape the gallows.
Almost as queer is the case of Marion
- So
woman of 10, and is employed as a
Raleswoman in a dry goods store. No
one ever suspected that there was any
Ehing wrong with her heart until the
other day, when she underwent an eX-
animation by the medical examiner of
q life insurance company. The med
ical man found that Marion had been
born with a 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 heart tina
for months past has been in state o
transit, moving from it's normal posi-
tion toward the right side and up ans
,edict lives in Marengo, Wayne county
this state. Four months ago she fel
into trance that lasted until few
days ago, when she practically regaine'
consciousness. DIR. William Hubbell
who had her in charge, said the frs
word9 she uttered were:
81 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,
as the heart had been guilty of similar
eccentricity three times during the
trance condition. Each time the organ
went back to it's old position, and DIR.
Hubbell declares there is no danger to
be apprehended. He can give no reason
for 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 a diagonal line toward the
lower right side of the body. The move
ment seems to take place in jumps that
occur toward the end of every third
month. When the migration is going |
to stop is a problem that is filing the
unfortunate owner of the heart with !
much uneasiness. His general health |
does not seem tohave 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 DIR. Cyrus Ed |
son has a queer case in one OF the pa
tents whom he has treated for con-
with his famous remedy. |
The patient had lost one lung, the
right. before he came to DR.. Edison, and |
had been given up as hopeless
case by a half dozen physicians. Dr..
Edison himself had but little hope of eff
fectinp a cure, as the left lung had been
attacked. But he gave the patient the
usual hypoder1nic 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
oened. In accordance with natures
usual law of compensation by which
one organ that has to perform the
functions of two is correspondingly
the patients remaining
ung has been very much enlarged. So
treat has this enlargement become
hat the heart has been displaced, and
,ow beats about the middle OF the
mans body.-N. Y. Journal.