HE’S ALL TURNED ROUND.
HEART, LUNGS, APPENDIX AND LIVER ARE ALL TRANSPOSED. The strange case of 'Nile Russell Boot, three year old son of Mrs and Mrs Victor Boot, of Denver, Colo., has been called by physicians “complete transposition of the viscera,” for lack of "a mono-syllabic definition. 1 It’s quite an ailment for such a small boy, but in spite of a transposed heart, lungs, appendix, and liver, the Lad seems normal in his actions. If Nile is ever operated on for appendicitis, the incision will be on the left side the doctors said. There are three lobes on the left lung instead of two, and two on the right. Nevertheless, Nile is about as husky as they come, and he wields a deft right hand on knives and spoons and an equally agile left on forks. The strange case is not without parallel, but, doctors po’nt out, of 347,000 patients handled during a 12-year period at a larve hospital, only ten such transpositions were known.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 295, 4 July 1929, Page 2
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167HE’S ALL TURNED ROUND. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 295, 4 July 1929, Page 2
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