The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22
MUSICAL LEG
Singular Medical Case In Which Mans
Limb Gives Forth Audible
Sounds.

Chicago Correspondence New York World
Although it is said, that a whistle has been
of 256 North Clark street, is probably the first
person who has ever made musical instrument
Put your hand anywhere on his left thigh.
from the hip to the knee, and you feel vibrations
Just as l, II; you were touching cabinet organ
and you hear the same musical murmur that you
may hear by those means in the human heart.
Indeed when everything is quiet at night, Mr..
Allen can hear his musical leg without using the
stethoseope. Many physicians, some of whom
after all that Mr. Alien cam tel them about it,
unite in saying that the case is an exceedingly
singular one.
City, Ont. One day In the store had open
penknife In my hand and engaged in a friendly
scufhe with another man. In jerking my arm
away from him l ran the small blade of the
knife into my thigh distance of perhaps an
inch and a half, and suppose severed the fem
when my. trousers were removed the blood
50 ten feet every time my heart and
was no Aphysician convenient and the people
about me resorted to number of primitive
which the application Of a mass of cob
webs: The man who got the credit of doing
claimed that he stopped the bleeding With a
charm
At any rate the flow of blood was stopped,
the leg was bandaged in the plainest manner
and the artery healed. For long time after
got about could not straighten my leg. But
gradually the limb relaxed and finally I walked
on; it. At present l walk on 1t ali the time
but am sensible that 1t is little weak, and I
have been cautioned that violent exercise of any
kind might be fatal -=ts.. ".---.s.
Doctors disagreed about the case. Some said
I would die unless l submitted to operation,
and others said the operation would surely kill
me. They all puzzled at the musical muir
muir The general opinion is that the femoral
artery was lacerated and grew together In some
way that obstructs the flow of blood But how
lacerated artery could ever heal under such
covered the musical sound as soon as was able
to stand on my feet. -'-. '---
Americans must not think that they are in all
To say nothing of Marconis achievements Italy
is far in advance of the United States in the
introduction of electrical traction, in place of
steam, upon long sections of important railway
lines. The line of the Adriatic Company. be-
tween Lecco, on Lake Como and Sondrio, sixty
seven miles in length Is operated by electricity,
and passenger trains traverse 1t at the rate of
more than forty miles hour. A different sys-
tenn is In the line of the Mediterranean
company, from Milan to Puerto Ceresio, on Lake
Lugano, forty-fve miles, where a speed of fifty
miles an hour is attained by trains consisting Of
motor car and three passenger carriages.
The University of Paris is to establish
bureau of scientific educational information for
the use Of foreigners, intended primarily for the
furnish its services gratuitiously to all genuine
physical science. Facilities viii be extended to
students attested by their national legations in
laboratories, museums, factories, the statistical
departments of technical institutions, profess
sional libraries, etc. 1t is expected that the
system Will be In working order by October. 1t
obtain the advantages which the university and
other scientific Institutions have to offer.