The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-01

A Missouri Man Who Caa 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. Heinze's troubles are
caused from stroke of paralysis sus-
tained last March, but just why he can
talk plainly on 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 cAnpany'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 a few
minutes later 1t was found that he could
not speak. It 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
che 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 q few months
after the occurrence he was able 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
distinctly. He has not been troubled
about his hearing since. While he was
slowly recovering from his other injuries
III 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 in
pleasant conversation with his friends
and relatives, Heinze was left as dumb
as OH the day that he was stricken
with paralysis. Three days of enforced
silence We're 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
OH an evening, 60 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 more
than the Argentine doctors can explain.
1t is thought that there is not case
like his ON record.
Heinze is 45 years Of age and small
in stature He has . wife and several
children. His wife says that previous
to March he had experienced the best Of
health and as far ~ she knows has
never been subject to disease. Heinze
himself can assign no cause for his
afHiction. Kansas City Times.