SUDDEN DEATH
STONE IN HEART.
“It. is a remarkable case,’’ sai?l Mr Ingleby Ocklie, the Westminster coroner, lately, in reference to the mp.di'cal evidence given at the inquest on Arthur George Joiner, aged 48, a retired major of the 4th King’s Own Royal Regiment, of Briarsfield, Tipperary, who died suddenly. John William Puggy, of Clonmel, Ireland, his brother-in-law, said that on July 30, he saw Major Joiner nff at Clonmel Station for England. He had been suffering with his heart for two months, and had never been really well since he returned from the Battle of Mons. John Blundell, a porter, said that Major Joiner suddenly collapsed as he was speaking to him on Tuesday. Dr Heqry Weir, who made a post mortem examination, said that death was due to strumosis in the left ventricle of the heart. The coroner explained that in all such diseases the heart muscle had degenerated, and become fibrous, and a clot had formed inside the heart cavity In an endeavour on the part of nature, in this case, to strengthen the wall of the heart, the clot had become converted into stone, and a portion had become detached. He recorded a verdict of death from natural causes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1926, Page 2
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