Surely the mystery of life was greater than the mystery of death in the case of a five months child which has just been the subject of an inquest at Battersea (says the Pall Mall Gazette). It had what the doctors call “drumstick” fingers and toes, its heart was on the right side instead of the left, the position of the lungs was reversed, the aorta curved down the right side instead of the left, there was no spleen, and liver was on the wrong side, and there was no division between the two 1 h mrbers of the heart, while the artery which should have supplied the lungs with blood was closed, the blood passing through a communication between the aorta and the remaining portion of the pulmonary artery. With all this jumbled anatomy the child lived, and the medical evidence proved that its death was not due directly to the disarranged organs, but to an attack of bronchitis.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 375, 21 April 1908, Page 4
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