Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-04-14
RECORDING HIS OWN DEA TIL
A MAN WHO TOOK Poison AND THEN
lts NOTED EVERY SYMPTOM.

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make page Of scientific history un-
equalled by anything in the treatment
of nervous diseases. Mr.. +. W. Wal
ker, an electrician OF 300 State steet,
was in November, 1871, run over by a
pork truck tWilliam and Cedar streets,
New York, and when he was picked
up his face was trampled in gashes by
the horses, and his right hand was so
mashed that the fingers could not be
distinguished from disconnected flesh.
Hc was carried TO the Washington
Life Insurance building and attended
by a police surgeon. Then he was re-
moved to his home in Plainfeld, N, j,
and there he recovered, but he carried
a manned hand, and the muscles Of his
lace were thoroughly involuntary IN
their action. pulling his features into
every sort oi eoatortion. HIS cyelids
drooped heavily Ind the muscles were
Ipoweriiess to RAISE them, so that Tor
hours he would be asa blind man. lie
managed large Insurance business,
and his aiiilctlon made him unfit to
continue his occupation lie was
man oil very large acquaintance ana
culture well known to all the hangers
on at Washington and many famous
Senators, was an intimate friend Of
Andrew johnson, and as correspondent
oil the Erpress before and alter the
war was begun, ne was known at the
Ioapitol ana IN this clty' Ills iamliy
laroe society ~ friends who visited
him tried 10 alleviate his suffering
9hf ,,,,uvr y,ro NOR ,,,vs
IA, - 80
hc sought " pIVwn-oeluaru ahu
Pu' himself nlniseli unIer tne 'rea.nen, e,, .ha'
~, ooqu''iu isr ssou III N, wn''li0s '.u,'',
ner ? nervous hneo''on' ino P''ys,e''''
5u'.ied ;.. IN. ms 'V'e'..,u . '"l iaee w" ~.
ion ns".ou " nni.o no"' "nu 81.
many i,'e,'l n niuscNs, ,aN'ng y sinS'' p''
;;I out au' .uen so"'''R VIZ ,',us y, 'ne
a io,sea rliusoi,s ~. ie ll nyguenuy ~
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noS ,Un nn ~, n'Noa @ was ,a,S oa'p az, no''Iou
a ~ ~ 'ne 'cp ,. wa' tneI paJ9ou ond ,pS cn,I nI'
na,i v !, os ,.s 1870 a,S ya.A ,g,a a'I ",,', 'oi ~,
nn @ Tn NV aan,.. ,mAeu Luo, ,,Ho unvuSo, ,,o,
ooa'u' ino se''' n'''''U away "nuoi
proper treatment
DR. Sequard gave a series of doses
tof stIychnlne, hoping to have 1t act as
a sedatiye on the nerves so that when
they once came TO rest they might
be kept so BY the use OF the drug. 1t
did not prove strong enough, and its
use was abandoned, DR.. Brown-Sequard
putting more ialth IN the moxa,
Alter pr Sequard's wife died he
went to Paris, leaving his patients in
care Of other physicians. He sent Mr.
Walker TO Or, Agnew, the celebrated
ocullst MIR. Walkers eyes began to
grow worse, and he was troubled with
dipiopla-douiie s'ght.
CUTTING TH1 MUSCLES OF THE EYE.
Dir. Brown!Sequard, when he sent
Walker TO. Dr. Agnow, advised him to
have the internal rcctus muscle of the
eye divided as remedy for the quick
twitching of eyes. This did not work
well, and the eyclid-thc right ono
was cut--droppod heavily down on the
opposite side. Mr, Walker then used
cour. P,.s'el 70 n'ane 'ne oycnu .rue
ss' ~, H. @ ae"ted sed ,ta .slasenea
W. pu' ~ ~, nga1w a;S1 ;, naI 'nv .. .ara',ase u
T .ne w uy,ues M'.n nv % ps''sr e,,a SUCCESS ,ss
nv n,.e'ioi - wv ;. e,,' hn'u "i.n
innuos, wn'on 'l'na,i'u N.Y. nv WI 81
mat .na' !. was WY sors' w ,,ar W. ,a M"ker
pcgah " eAPo.'nens '.,' o,l snese l'l''sc'lI ~
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