HEART FREAK
ON THE RIGHT SIDE. LONDON, June 12. ? Fifty-two-year-old Mr W. Moss, of Plymouth, enjoys perfect health, yet doctors are always examining him. • The reason is that Mr Mp.ss is. no ordinary' mau. His heart is on the right side, while his appendix, is on the left-—the, reverse of the normal positions. As ,a lad of nineteen he wanted to take part in a boxing tournament at Liverpool. . The doctor who examined rum'forbade him to enter. “If you go into the ring,” he said, “you will drop dead . Tour heart-heat is so weak you .are liable to die of heart failure at any minute.” ...... This frightened young Moss so much that he abandoned his boxing aspirations. Brit he has since served twentysix years in the Army, and at fifty-two he ‘is now perfectly fit. It was not until years afterwards that he realised it was because the doctor had been listening at the wrong place that he could not hear the heart beat!
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1937, Page 6
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