Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — Swing Is Believing. [ARTICLE]

Swing Is Believing.

A drastic and highly successful surgical Illusion recently carried out by a French doctor has caused no end of talk in Paris. A woman suffering from nervous troubles was convinced that the symptoms were produced by a lizard which Bhe felt crawling about In her stomach. She Insisted that she recalled perfectly having swallowed the animal when young In slaking her thirst at a brook. After drugs and dieting hacTftrtled to work any relief Dr. Rlchelot had an Idea. He remembered how the surgeon Velpeau treated a peasant who thought he bad swallowed an adder: So he proposed to his patienj to deliver her of her unwelcome guest by a serious operation and had her enter the Hopttal Cochin. Then the doctor secured a fine, large, living lizard. Having put the woman under the influence of ether, he opened her stomach and immediately sewed It up again. When she regained consciousness he showed her the lizard. The sight effected a cure and the patient made a pet of the anlmai.