ORGANS OUT OF PLACE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 29, 29 October 1907, Page 5

ORGANS OUT OF PLACE.

.■■• | ..■..:; ■ TASMANIAN CASE. i)T TELEOiIAfII—r'KESS , ASSOCIATION—COrYMOUT. j. ■ i, .•);, Hobartj October 28. ■ A post; mortem.;'oxdliiiiiatidn oh a nian wlio dieci" in Grcentoivn' H,bspital ■ from natural (iauses • roVcalcd tlic fact Mhat all tile single organs wbre reversed from the..iiormal order./' " ': ■" ■Tγ-:..'.'; ■..' .•.■■:•' ; ' The heart was .biutlio right /sido, , the livof oil the left, thd.stomach was completely reversed,, and ithe: largo';blood-vessels■ rari down thb opposite side to!that oh which they wero. always foiiiid. : .?u!.'i.'.' .. . ■ ■ The ense is .believed to;bo unique in the history Of human! anatomy..: : ■ At'ah iiiqiirst oil n ."yotisig ' mart nhiiioil M'lhtyrp, ht Diffl)y's f Bridsci lienr' Ashbiir'.6ii, about eighteen! months npo, tlibi medical testimony wan to. tho effect; ]l;hnt itho ,nost-mori:»m had disclosed that s, intciv'ial organs ■ were'■ iii'rev'erßC positibn tbUhe usiiiil <■':■ dor of Jiuman physiologicalconstntciton. .The phenomena, pxcitod .'considerable- interest amoiiq tho lbrnl ' Infiiipiil ''fd'ciilty. Tn-l's evidence, Dr. Jioyd stated that, notwithstai.diiiirsiich displuci'inuut, tlinru wiis ho iv.-niili why Uoi-mnl hcalUi. should not' be l ciiioved Lv the individual. ■■■■<■ ' -!!!, ■■ , ■'.. -'

"Situs inversus, oi , lictWdtafeyV is," says a medical authority, "ah iiitercsti'int.anomalv in which. we find mi. opening the body-cavities that the organs'nil linte the appeai'iinco that thc.v would; present, if n;6ii:iii a mirror The Btonmehilics on the right side and tho liver oil ,thc Jleft,' tlio spleen is on the rißht, and so oh down even'to the Riiiallcst-'differences such as the height of , the kidneys and.tho arrangement of the vessels. H is KnmcriuirSi' but not iiivariably, associated'with left-haiiilediiKs. A condition which lit first sijht -rcpcmblos it is'diio fa) congenital diaphragmatic horiiin, for in it the instrusion of soiirv of the abdominal contents into the thoriik causes- adisplncemortt of the heart to the right side (dextrocardia); but the two coh()it.ions arc qliitn difTi-rent in their origin, nlthoußh it is intercstiriß to know, that they have brim met with associated.'.'. .'.'. Terntogencsis. or cxperinienrnl teratology< is n product of recent.. years. It has been chiefly carried but'with'the hen's ci?b in incubation, add it has beoii foiindi that by disturbing- the normal incubation, c'ohdiljoas (by increasing the temperature or. by injecting in the\albumch poisohs, inicrobes, and toxifis) various forms of monstrous development can: bo pro. dncod, although it.liaS not yet been matin p os _ siblptq foretell what typo of monstrosity will result in any Rivcivcase."