Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — SHIFTS A DISPLACED HEART [ARTICLE]

SHIFTS A DISPLACED HEART

Fluid in the Left Pleural Cavity Had Pushed It Out—Surgeon Put* It In Place Again. Philadelphia.—With his heart in the right place again, Harry Baylies of Bloomfield, N. J., left the Mountainside hospital, Montclair. The boy, son of Polico Sergeant John R. Baylies. entered the hospital a few weeks ago. The uistory of his case was not clear. The surgeons found that much fluid had accumulated in the cavity that contains his left lung; its pressure had pushed his heart out of its normal position and to the right, so that Harry would have had to lay his hand over his breastbone if he wanted to make love with appropriate gestures. The surgeons tapped Harry's left pleural cavity very much in the same way and "with the same kind of instrument as a nurse taps a bottle ot champagne to draw off one glass for the patient But the surgeons drew all the liquid from the cavity. Then Harry’s heart, being relieved from pressure, returned to its proper position and cesumed pumping at the same old stand. Literally, Harry breathed freer, but that had not so much to do vith his heart as with his left lung; there was more room for air In it after the fluid was removed. The surgeons advised Harry .to keep as quiet as possible, else the fluid may accumulate again. But if it doe* they will draw it off.