RIGHT IS WRONG

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 12

RIGHT IS WRONG

MAN’S ORGANS REVERSED. Following every day the strenuous occupation of a ripper in the Cortonwood colliery, near Sheffield, England, is a man named Joseph Johnson, of Oaks Gredn, Sheffield, whoso internal 'organs are engaging the attention of well-known medical men. Johnson is one of a large family of brothers and sisters who arc normal and healthy people, but ho, it has been declared by doctors, has his heart on the wrong side, and all his other organs are vice versa to those of normal people. Nevertheless, Johnson does not feel any ill-effects from his peculiarity. On the contrary, he declares that he is as strong and as healthy as any man, and he certainly looks it. He joined the Amy in 1912, and was then passed Al- On the outbreak of the war ho went to France, where he served for four years, being gassed and wounded. It--was, not till after he bad been gassed that the military’ doctor discovered that his, heart was on the right side instead of the left, and since then he has been the subject of lectures in many hospitals.