HEART'S ALL RIGHT.
BUT IN WRONG PLACE.
FISHERMAN AMAZES DOCTORS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) IiOXDOX. dune 12. Fifty-two-year-old Mr. W. Moss, a Plymouth fisherman, enjoy* perfect health, yet doctors are always examining him. The reason is that Mr. Moss is no ordinary man. His heart is on the right side, while his appendix is on the left—the reverse of the normal position. As a lad of nineteen he wanted to take part in a boxing tournament at Liverpool. The doctor who examined him forbade him to enter. "If you go into the ring," he said, "you will drop dead. Your heart heat is so weak you are liable to die of heart failure at any minute." 1 his frightened young Moss so much that lie abandoned his box ins; aspirations. Hut he has since sorted -l> years in the Army and at fifty two ho i~ now perfectly tit. It was not until years afterwards that lie realised it was because the doctor had boon liMeiiim> at t'te wrong place that lie -ould not licar t.ho heart beat!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 153, 30 June 1937, Page 22
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177HEART'S ALL RIGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 153, 30 June 1937, Page 22
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