The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-25
VOMITS UP LIZARDS
sIOKENING EXPERIENCE OF PHILA-
DELPHIA PEANUT. SELLER.
Elects From His stomachs Thirty.Six Wrfg-
Cling Reptiles With the Tails and Heads
of Several Others-It - Believed That
He Swallowed the Spawn Of q Lizard
While Drinking at Spring aud That
They Propagated in Has Stomach
They Made Him Very Sickle Now
Feels Rettar.

Philadelphia, July "a. - Authentic
stories Of the ejectiE1 OF live lizards from
the human stomach.are not OF infrequent
occurrence, but byihis performance in
that line on Friday last Morris Collins OF
Ango-a has certainly become record
breaker. After an illness of several
weeks duration Collins suddenly became
sick a, the stomach on Friday and vom-
tied no less than thirty-six lizards. vary
ing in size from three and one-half inches
10 half an incn. After vomiting the liz
ards Collins improved rapidly in health,
and is now able to DE about.
That the case is a genuine one there
can be little doubt, as the lizards are
vouched for by several persons who were
IL the house with Collins a the time and
as additional proof the man exhibits the
reptiles, which ne has preserved in alco-
mol in a bottle. Besides the thirty-six
whole reptiles there are hads and tails
of several others, all Of which, however,
are very small.
Collins lives on Sixty-third street, two
doors west of Baltimore avenue. in a two
story stone house He makes living by
the sale of peanuts, cakes and other edi-
bles 70 the crowds that are to be found
on Sunday about the waiting room al tn
on Sunday about the waiting room at the
terminus OF the Angora and Media troll
ley lines. For several weeks prior TO
I>r;yj r. -I,yf fol ~,
health, losing over twenty pounds in
wight in less than two months. About
ten days ago Collins condition became
SO much worse that ne consulted a
Philadelphia physician, who a. first was
unable 10 diagnose the case.
After two or three visits, and upon
careful observation of his patients symp-
toms, the doctor told Collins that there
were lizards in his stomach. Just what
preliminary treatment was given could
not be learned, as Collins, acting under
the physicians instructions, was unwill-
ing TO divulge the latter's name, explain
ing that the doctor wished to make some
observations of mis- own before the mat
ter got into the newspapers. On Friday,
however. an emetic was administered,
and on that day relief came TO the suffer-
er.
Collins was in bed at the time, in one
Of the second-s5toTy rooms OF the house,
and his wife was in the living room
downstairs. She heard the noises &C.
casioned by her husbands distress. and
ran upstairs to find him bending over
a basin into which the lizards had been
elected. A number were still alive, but
the greater number had apparently been
killed by the mans efforts TO eject them
from his stomach. Other members OF
the household were summoned after
Mrs. Collins recovered from her astonish-
ment, and they attest to the truth of ner
story and that of her husband The at
tending physician, when informed of the
number of lizards and when shown the
specimens in the bottle. pronounced the
case 10 be the most remark able that had
ever come under his observation.
How the reptiles got into his stomach
is a mystery 10 Collins. who can only
account for their presence upon the
theory that ne must have swallowed
some OF their spawn when quenching his
thirst at spring. His health has been
on the mend since Friday, and he is re-
covering lost weight -i1I,-