Show odd accident blamed on E eating of onion A few weeks ago a working party set out from sydney new south wales to clear a road for a new soldiers settlement with then them went albert coxon as a guest he took no part in the clearing but joined in a scratch lunch of which ills his chief share was a raw onion later bebas one of a party return ing home tn in a motor car traveling about 35 miles an hour over a bad road a jolt threw the occupants from their seats coxon immediately yelled relied for the tha car to be stopped on pulling ephe up ha was discovered in a state of collapse gasping for breath and suffering great pain when lie he reached home he at once consulted a local doctor the latter was puzzled puzzle tue the patients chest was swollen the heart twisted aside and there was pain and shock coxon spent a night of agony in the morning his chest was inflated like a football and his heart was fluttering then another doctor a luns lung specialist was summoned and the mystery was solved the jolt had winded coxon with a vengeance he ha had bad actually burst a lung the swelling was the escaped air the lungs tire are normally in a double airtight lining the air from the burst lung lad had burrowed into tills athla sac and blown it up like a soap bubble thrusting the sufferers heart out of place the only explanation tile the experts can give Is that the raw onion having set up indigestion a violent hiccup on colons part coincided with the strain of tile the cars jolt tearing open the lung six weeks of lying still have practically heated healed his puncture and tho the air lying loose in his chest Is being slowly absorbed into the blood later it will in process of circulation reenter the lung and so at last rejoin the atmosphere again |