The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1897-01-12
FRISKY ORGANS.
Persons Whose Hearts Move About
in Their Bodies.
Some Queer Cases That Have Come Under
the Observation of Physicians-
Natures Strange Com
pcnsations.

queer freaks of late in various parts OF |
the United States. Indiana leads, as
she usually 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 bad 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
ihehouse of his fiancee jameson rushed
on him and, pressing a pistol to Re-
viiles 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, 50 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 70
escape the gallows
Almost as queer is the case of Marion
Elmore, 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
n 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 q heart that
for months past has been in a state of
transit, moving from its 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 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:
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. DIR. 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 its old position, and Dr.
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 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 DIR. Cyrus Ed
son has q 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
right, before he came to DR.. Edison, and
had been given up as hopeless
case by half dozen physicians. DR..
Edison himself had but little hope of eff
fecting a 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 a strange thing has hap
pened. In accordance with natures
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