BORN WITH ONE LUNG.
REVEALED BY POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION. Christchurch, October 8. The post-mortem examination ef the body of Mr William Edward Mowbray, who was found dead at his homo ’I at Oamaru on Friday, disclosed re- J markable physical phenomena. At itlio adjourned inquest Dr. Ale- j Adam said that the deceased had never bad more than one lung and one kidney. The right lung was a foetal lung of about two inches square, which had never developed. Ho had also been bom with only one kidney, the right being wholly absent. Dr. McAdam said that he had known of cases where one kidney had been absent from birth, but be bad never previously known of any person being born with only a single lung. The deceased’s heart was diseased, but not sufficiently to account in itself for death, which had, in his opinion, resulted from heart disease, assisted by the -abnormal condition of flic other organs. The coroner entered a verdict according to this testimony.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 41, 11 October 1912, Page 7
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166BORN WITH ONE LUNG. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 41, 11 October 1912, Page 7
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