Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1910 — ANATOMY OF WOMAN AWRY [ARTICLE]

ANATOMY OF WOMAN AWRY

Miss Moses, a Nurse; Has Every Internal Organ on Bide Opposite to Usual Location. —Philadelphia.—The mixed Anatomy of Alexander Jordan, whose heart, spleen, liver and stomach are reversed, according to the standard set in the construction, is paralleled in the case of Miss Anna ,A. Moses, a trained nurse of Osterburg, Bedford county, Pa. Miss Moses not only possesses all of the transpositions boasted by Jordan, but was treated for appendicitis six years ago by applications on the left side of her abdomen. She presents a complete case of “situs inversus,” every organ of her body being on the side opposite to where it is usually found. Miss Moses writes with her right hand, but says in learning to do so in childhood, before her mixed anatomy was known, she seemed to be conquering a protesting tendency to lefthandedness which would be the effect of an Inherited righthandedness from both of her parents. She discovered that her heart was on the right side, or rather the wrong side, while studying to be a trained nurse, in 1898, but did not suspect that the reversal was complete, and, as she suffered not evCn the slightest illness, was not examined by a physician until 1904. Then she began to feel pains* in the lower part of her abdomen on the left

side, and visited Dr. Mervyn R. Taylor, at 1706 Race street. Miss Moses laughed gayly when the physician became perplexed in sounding her heart with his stethoscope. An examination convinced Dr. Taylor that all of her organs were reversed.