The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-11
INTERMITTENT SPEECH.
A Missouri Man Who Can Talk ON Some
Days and Can't on Others.
(Kansas City Iimes.)

(Kansas City Times.)
Some days he can talk; some days he
cannot Such Is the predioament OF Inc
odore Heinze, railroad employe III Ar
gentine, whose casa is one OF the stFahR-
est that has ever come un der the noGlce
of the local medical profession for some
time. Heinzs's trou bles are caused
from a stroke of paralysis sustained last
March but just why he can talK plainly
on some days while on other days he4ls
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 freight
car in the ompany's yards in Argen
tine when he was suddenly seized with
pains all over his body. He fell helpless
to the ground and when picked up by
fellow workJnen a few minutes later
ii 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, Dr.. Burke, was summoned. The
physician said that the man was para
lyzed in the right side and that he had
suffered from the stroke all over the
body. At the time Heinze was deaf ana
dumb.
Regular treatment soon gave the In
jured man relief and a few months after
the occurrence he was ale to walk about.
His speech and hearing were both gone,
however. Last August. five 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 distlnctly. ne
has not been troubled about his hearing
SINCE While he was slowly recovering
from hie other injuries all these months
his speech was still lacking. Even after
he had regained his hearing he was una
BILE to utter syllable. The treatment
was continued and about Decem boz his
voice returned to him. Then suddenly,
after two days spent In pleasant CONVEX
sation with his friends and relatives.
Heinze was left as dumb as the first day
that he was stricken with paralysis.
Ibree days Of enforced silence were fol-
lowed by three days during which ne
had the use of his voice. 30 his con-
dition has been ever since. He will con-
verse q ith his friends on an evening, 60
to he'd, and arise the next morning
unable to repeat single word spoken
by him the previous evening: he visits
his physician every day and keeps up the
treatment, but as yet 1t has had no effect
on the periodical changes In his spec CHI.
Re has recovered from the paralytic
stroke somewhat. but he is yet very
weak, and the physicians state that ne
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 more than the Ar
gentine doctors can explain. 1t Is thought
that there is not a case like his on rec
ord.
Heinze is As years of age and small In
stature. He has wife and several chill
treD. HIS wife says that previous to
March he had experienced the best Of
health, and as far as she knows has
never been subject to disease. Heinze
himself can assign NO cause for his ac-
tion.