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Show A HEART IN HIS LEG. Operation In St. IxmU Hospital Upon a Patient Peculiarly Afflicted. I Dr. Marks, iuperlntendent of the City hospital, cut a heart out of a man's leg recently. Instead of being necesary to th patient's existence, as hearts usually ure, this organ was a very dangerous jposseBsion and was likely to end his life at any moment. The heart was almost as large as the one usually found inside a man's ribs and beat in very much the Bame manner. It was situated upon the Inside of the i .. . t leg, four or five inches above the k. lv-, and was more tender than the ball c? t ae owner's eye. mm. Charles f .-j.tr, a laborer, was the ' owner of t:..o wry remarkable organ. To the surge u? t' ; , ' nomenon is called a traumatic ut-cur t L. t f the femoral artery. ar-tery. This artery is tb' big blood feeding pipe that run? fraia the heart down through the be Ir n rau i eg, furnishing life to the different ptrts of the anatomy as It goes. About two months ago Gentry was struck upon the lg just over the artery ar-tery by a. shaft of a piece of machinery. The inner wall tf the artery was burst, and the big pipe began to bulge out at this point. The outer wall, or coat of the artery, lucidly stretched and held the blood, or Gentry would have bled to death in so time. ? The artery kept on swelling with ev ery pulsation of the patient's heart. From the fdze of a hazelnut the bulge grew and rew until it was larger than a man's fist. Eow the artery managed to stand it without bunting was a mat-i mat-i ter for wonder even to the surgeons. The f least touch given to the skin orer the swelling caused Gentry horrible pain, and he was obliged to keep very still lest any audden morement or contact would break it and by the hemorrhage bring on death. The aneurism oould be seen to beat to all intents and purposes like any - other heart. If one brought his ear close 7 to it, he could hear a constantly repeated ' blowing or breathing sound coming from beneath the skin. This noise was caused by the vacant air space around the swollen artery where it had crowded the muscles aside. The patient was laid upon the operating operat-ing table and placed under the influence of chloroform. A sharp knife laid the tissues aside and e moped the femoral ar- I try with its apple shaped bulb. Thear- I tery was then tied or ligated two inches f above and two inches below the swelling J and the big bulb cut open. Nearly a pint of blood gushed forth, and then there was no heart left. The slit artery was then sewed together with fine silk threads previously soaked In antiseptic solution , and left to heal St Louis Globe-Demo- crat j |