A MISPLACED HEART.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3503, 27 June 1884, Page 3

A MISPLACED HEART.

The phenomenal peculiarity of a misf ilaced heart has been brought to public igbt as existing in the body of a man who has been a resident in the St. Cloud Hotel, Philadelphia for the past six years. He is a major in the United States Army. The discovery that the major’s heart was dislocated, on the right side of his body instead of the left was made by Dr J. Hampton in 1881, while the former was underfoing a diagnosis for lung trouble, hr Hampton discovered that the heart was located four inches out of place and on the right-hand side. The beating could be best felt three inches directly below the pit of the right arm. It was found that the inside organs were correspondingly misplaced. As the major bad never suffered from pneumonia or pleurisy, it wag coneluded that the malformation was congenital. The heart beat abnormally fast, and an undue appetite was developed in the patient. To remedy this latter system and the slight Inng trouble, Dr Hampton advised him to go to Europe. He was told that the misplacement of the heart was not inconsistent with perfect health, and that he would probably live as long as if the organ were in the proper place. Dr Hampton pronounces such cases extren ely rare, that of the St. Cloud Hotel man being the second that ever came to his direct knowledge. Maurice [Raymond a great French authority, says that the heart may be in the neck, at the base of the ekull, in the neighborhood of the jaw, in a depression on the surface of the liver, or between the stomach and the liver. The most carious case of heart misplacement is reported by Deschamps. It was that of a man who lived healthily, was married, had three children, but died suddenly. A.postmortem, examination revealed the fact that the heart occupied the place of the right kidney.