Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-03
SOME ANATOMICAL WONDERS.

SOME ANATOMICAL WONDERS.
When you desire to secure real
anatomical wonders, 60 to the news
columns of the country weeklies,
where the literary editor is out
sailing the hogs, and the proof
reader is at home cooking supper
for the family. Students of anat-
omy, who think they know the hu-
man body in its minutest ramifica-
tions, are amazed by the discover
les they make in reading over the
local items, and they are lost in
wonder at the carelessness of SCI
ence in overlooking the results of
editorial research among subscrib-
ers.
For example, an Indiana weekly
reports that while Miss Gladys Hig-
gins, of Aurora, was coming down
to breakfast Thursday morning, she
fell and bruised herself on the land
ing. Unfortunately for the inquir
ing anatomist, Miss Higgins was
not sufficiently hurt to require the
services of a physician to locate
and treat her injuries, and that she
was bruised on the landing is all
the satisfaction science gets out of
the report. Still, there must
be a landing in her anatomy some
where or she could not have been
bruised upon it.
Another case is that of Samuel
Harrison, of Piedmont, West Vir-
ginia, who, while harnessing frac-
tious horse, was kicked just south
of the corn-crib. If the horse were
able to sreak, it might explain to
the anatomist in what part of Mr..
Harrison's body the corn-crib is 10
Gated. But it is not, and the anat-
omist must guess at what he can
not find in any of his books. The
scientist who could locate the site
OF Mr.. Harrison's injury might be
the properly equipped person to
call in to see Mrs. Susan Harper Of
Carrollton, Kentucky, who, while
feeding her COWS, was hooked in
the barn. There seems to be a
correlation here which would indi-
cate that the parts might be mutu-
ally helpful to the physical investi-
gator.
Two other instances of a some
what similar correlation may be
found in that of w. D. Tyndall, of
Waldweck, New Jersey, who, while
stopping leak in the roof of his
house, fell off and struck on his
back porch, receiving severe injur-
les, and that of Mrs. Irma Simmer,
of Carthage, Texas, who was teas
ing her tortoise-shell tomcat when
it viciously scratched her on the pi-
azza. Still, without plans and
specifications, the keenest anato-
mist could not locate, Off hand, the
injuries herein set forth.
A much more serious case, be-
cause dog bites are so dangerous,
is that which occurred in Wades-
boro, North Carolina. 1t seems from
this report that as Miss Henriet-
ia Severn was being escorted home
from church Sunday night by Ma
jor Alfred Stofer, they were attack
ed by a savage dog, which bit Miss
Severn four times on the public
square. Under the circumstances,
the young lady should go at once to
Pasteur Institute for treatment,
but could Pasteur himself get to
those bites in a hurry with no 9TH
er directions than as given above?
Still other instances that call for
investigation by the anatomist who
has no editorial training are those
of Mr.. jim Rees, of Winchester,
Ohio, who was stung by hornet
in the cow-pasture; of Policeman
Smith, of Meridian Mississippi, who,
running in to stop a street fight,
was struck by a brickbat on his ap-
pearance, and of Miss Marry Holm,
of Independence, Missouri, who at
first escaped safely from a burning
house, but was badly burned on her
return.
Of course. if The country editors
wish to reconstruct the human