The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-01-17
A Case Of Anatomical VdgdrieS.

A New York dispatch of Dec. 10Th
saws: An autopsy in Bellvue mourge
disclosed that Michael Manning lived
for thirty-two yea with his vital or
gans in wrong places. The first cut OF
the knife showed some displacement
and recognizing he had a case out of
the common, DR.. Cyrus W. Field sum
moned professional witnesses. He did
not proceed with the work until sixty
doctors had assembled from the hospi-
tails, colleges and private rounds.
Manning's heart was on the right
side instead of on the left, asst it should
have been. The oesophagns commonly
left side. In this case it was on the
right, thus being normally abnormal,
because it's proper exit is under the
heart and close to it. Ordinarily the
liver occupies the upper right and mid
had his on the left side.
Doctors adept in appendicitis saw
they would have made a useless incis-
ming, where other persons carry their
the left side. The spleen occupies a
small place in the upper left region of
the abdominal cavity. Manning's had
fitted itself over to the right.
When Manning's heart lodged itself
on the right it changed the course of
the pulmonary artery, which usually
starts in the right ventricle in the
opening of the aorta, ascends to the
under surface of the aorta arch and
then forks, one branch feeding the
right lung and the other the left. In
this case it reached it's objective by a
route under the aorta instead of over
it. The lungs presented a curious con-
formation. Ordinarily each of them
has two lobes; here the left lung had
two and the right three.
The professors and doctors crowded
around the body as these anatomical
vagaries appeared in their order. All
agreed this case would have been most
difficult for clinical diagnosis. Some of
the surgeons declared they considered
the autopsy a warning never again to
operate for appendicitis, gallstones or
a heart affection without first taking
an A-ray photograph to point the way,
as such a transposition might occur in
anyone without his being aware of it.
Manning never knew he was queerly
constructed. He worked all his life as
a laborer, felt always strong and held
up his end on all the jobs to which he
was put so well that he never wanted
for something to do. Last week be
contracted what he supposed to be a
cold, that left him unfit for work. Sus
pecting it must be pneumonia, he went
to the hospital last Saturday. The doc
tors thought he guessed right as to h &
illness. They had barely started pner-
monia treatment with him on Sunday
when he died. Thei an autopsy was
ordered.
DR.. Field holds the post of assistant
professor of pathology of the Bellevue
Hospital Medical College. He said af-
ter the operation that although dis
eased conditions were found in some OF
the organs, all were s~tructuralIy nor
NAL. DR.. John McAlister, demonstra-
ting professor in operative surgery il
the college, said no similar case had
ever been brought to the attention OF
the surgeons and physicians of the hos
pital.
Manning's body was removed to al
undertaker's after the autopsy.
Doctors in Flower Hospital were
elated yesterday over the assured re-
covery of Deputy Sheriff John Seconde
of Queens, whose intestines were per-
forated in nine places and lacerated ii
QUE by a 80 caliber bullet with which
he accidentally shot himself Nov. rs.
Never were so many perforations en-,
countered in a single patient. Dr.. R.
S. Buckley and DR., Hughes of the house
staff had charge of the case. DR..
Hughes expects the patient to be well
within ten days.