Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Tracy, Margaret 1908
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Payette Independent  3-27-1908
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, March 27, 1908
 
CASE UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE
 
Little Margaret Tracy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Tracey, died last Friday 
a few minutes after she was taken to St. Josephine hospital at Weiser.  She 
had been suffering for several months with inflammatory rheumatism which had 
bent and twisted her little limbs, but it was not from this that she died.  
Her death was the result of a deformity which seems to be the only case known 
to medical science.  An autopsy revealed that the colon or large bowel, which 
should have been almost four times the size of the small bowels, was even 
smaller than they and seems not to have grown at all.
 
This was the third severe attack of obstruction of the bowels which she had 
had.  The first one occurred about two years ago when she was taken to a 
hospital and recovered.  Last December she had another attack and she was made 
ready to be taken to a hospital again and while her parents and physicians 
were waiting for a delayed train she suddenly got better and recovered at 
home.  The last attack which came on the day before she died was similar to 
the others.
 
Her physician knew the cause of the trouble was an obstruction of the bowels 
but he could not fathom it, as she was continually having trouble between the 
severe attacks.  The more he studied the case the more complexing it became.  
So when the child, who was only four years, a month and five days of age, died 
Dr. Avey, who had waited on her since her birth, asked that he be permitted to 
hold an autopsy.  "A good many anatomical anomalies crop out yet there is no 
similar case in medical literature," said Dr. Avey.  He said the little girl 
never could have grown up as there could have been no remedy even if she had 
undergone operations.  
 
The people of Payette sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. Tracey, who have lived here 
for a good many years and have many friends.
 
The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Baptist 
church, Rev. White officiating.

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Note:  Burial at Riverside. ch

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