AN UNUSUAL CASE.
! REVEALED. BY POST. MORTEM EXAMINATION. 1 Christchurch, Tuesday! The post-mortem examination' ..of : ,thei body of William Edward- Mowbray, who was found dead at his home at'Oamaru on Friday, disclosed remarkable physical, phenomena. / '•,.•/ ." At the adjourned inquest yesterday Dr. McAdam said that the deceased had never had more than one lung one kidney. The right lung 'was _a foetal lung of about two inches - square, which kad never developed. He had also been born with only one kidney;.* wio right being wholly absent.
Dr. McAdam said that he had known of cases where one kidney had, been absent from birth, but he had -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; whi<Sh had, in his opinion, resulted from heart "disease, assisted by the abnormal condition of the other organs.
The coroner entered a verdict according to this testimony .
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 123, 11 October 1912, Page 6
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159AN UNUSUAL CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 123, 11 October 1912, Page 6
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