Kosciusko-Elkhart County IN Archives Obituaries.....Hepler, Samuel October 26, 1883
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Nappanee News, 1 Nov 1883
Nappanee News, 1 Nov 1883: Samuel Hepler, formerly of town, died at his home 
near Millwood last Friday morning, aged 64 years.  He had been a sufferer for 
a year or more from liver trouble.  A postmortem examination was held by Dr. 
Merle, of Millwood, assisted by Drs. Yonkman and Wahl, of Bremen, and is as 
follows: We found the liver a hiterogenous mass of abcesses and tubereles, 
increased in weight to perhaps three times that of its normal weight.  The 
gall duct was completely closed by adhesion, and the gall sack was empty 
except one gall stone.  The presumption is that the passage of numerous gall 
stones caused irritation of the gall duct, so much so that after all the gall 
stones had passed except the one remaining, the gall duct collapsed and 
produced the adhesion.  All the other organs, such as the pancreas, kidneys, 
heart, and lungs, were in a normal state, except as they were changed somewhat 
from sympathy with each other.  The spleen was very much dilated.  The 
accumulation of water, remaining in the body after death, was about eight 
gallons.

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