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Show Heart on Wrong Side; ;j; li Restored to Position ;!; .J. Philadelphia. Her heart .1 X pushed nearly ever to t lie right ' . side nnd her left lung crumpled X X In-low the shoulder. Miss Hazel "' Hh-hnrdso.i, twenty-six yours X old, of Washington, went to the V j' Philadelphia General hospital X X three months ago to die. X y lieeently Miss Itiehnnlson ! walked out of the hospital with X X heart nnd long in their normal .j. positions. If she will not exert X X herself she tuny live for many years, physicians saw X i 1 y .1, Air escaping through n pune- "j - ture In the left lung filled the 5 X area ahottt the heart. It pushed 't the cardiac organ down and to- X ward the right side, until It 'i Y finally attained n posUion he- X hind the eighth r!h. Writer also ) y pressed against har heart. : X Both wnter and air were J X drawn off through n small tuhe : X Inserted through the left side. '; X The pressure relieved, the heart j. returned to Its normal position, ! X and the lung, with the puncture blocked, slowly expanded. ', X Through the lung's deflation the ' hole in the pulmonary organ ' X probably was permitted to hertl ' y by nature's process, It Is be- X 'ieved. .. . - |