The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-03
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4 Missouri Man who Can Talk on Some
Days and Can't on Others.

A Missouri Man Who Can Talk on Some
Days and Can't on Others.
Some days he can talk; some days he
cannot. Such is the predicament OF
Theodore Heinze, railroad employee
in Argentine, whose case is one OF the
strangest that has come under the
notice of the local medical profession
for some time. Heinzes troubles are
caused from stroke of paralysis sus-
tanned last March, but just why he cam
talk plainly OH some days, while ON
other days he is as dumb as an OYSTER
the doctors are at loss to understand
Heinze has been an employee OF the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway
for many years One day last March
he was doing some repair work on q
| freight car in the company's yards In
| Argentine when he was suddenly seized
| with pains all over the body. He fell
| helplessly to the ground, and when
| picked up by fellow workmen few
| minutes later il was found that he could
! not speak. 1t was discovered, too, that
he could hear nothing He was removed.
| to his home. on East Ruby avenue, and
| the local railway surgeon, DIR. Burke,
was summoned The physician said that
| the man was paralyzed in the right
| side and that he had suffered from the
| stroke all over the body. At the time
| Heinze was deaf and dumb.
Regular treatment soon gave the
injured man relief, and a few months
| after the occurrence he was able to walk
about His speech and hearing were
both gone, however. Last August, i've
months after the accident, his hearing
returned to him as if by magic. He
went to bed one night deaf. The next
morning he arose and could hear sounds
distinctly. He has not been troubled
about his hearing since. While he was
slowly recovering from his other injuries
all these months his speech was still
lacking. Even after he had regained his
hearing he was unable to utter q sylla-
BILE. The treatment was continued, and
about Dec ! his voice returned to him
Then suddenly, after two days spent i'm
pleasant conversation with his friends
and relatives, Heinze was left as dumb
as ON the day that he was stricken
with paralysis Three days Of enforced
silence were followed by three days
during which he had the use Of his
voice. So his condition has been ever
since. He will converse with his friends
on an evening, go to bed and arise the
next morning unable to repeat single
word spoken by him the previous even
ing. He visits his physician every day
and keeps up the treatment, but as yet
it has had no effect ON the periodical
: lapses in his speech. He has recovered
from the paralytic stroke somewhat, but
he is yet very weak, and the physicians
state that he will never be able to do
another days hard work. The fact that
he has the use of his speech some days.
while other days he has not, is mors
: than the Argentine doctors can explain
1t is thought that there is not cas-
like his on record.
Heinze is 40 years Of age and small
in stature. He has wife and several
: children. His wife says that previnnl
! to March he had experienced the best a
health and as far a. she knows ba1
! never been subject to disease. Heinzs
! himself can assign no cause for hi
affliction Kansas City Times.