The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-10-16
GIFT PROM THE DEAD.
His Soul to Heaven and HIS Body
to the Doctors Dying Mans
Bequest.

Yesterday Dr. J. X. Neale, a prominent
physician If this CITY, Was not . lii,l,
startled Ivy res~iving through the E-<
Office letter from J. II. Dunden, offering
his body for dissection. The letie. stated
that the writer was in . diving condition, al
the harding house 81 Alderman Nc Enroes
in Fast S.dalia. where after death he could
he found. il appear from the letter ths,
the writer has been afflicted for numlrr
ii wears with m i,.curable disease lie
has tried m turn the last physicians al
Cincinnati, Louisville and - Louis, and
for large part of that time has bsrn
An IxNATE ~ HOSPITALS.
. But nov here has he derived any benefit
from their successive Treatments. Al last
by the ad-ice Of 81. Louis physicians he de-
termined To try the effect Of prairie coun-
try, sni over \ year ago came Ia Sesialia.
F. Since there lac has worked rs day la!nrer,
Co Use his own expression AT the hardest
kind of w":k' Al first he grew better, ard
tie hemorrhage which had previously
bc-n al frequent occurrence ceased.
l:ut his condition o'l,erwi was moi greatly
improved. Rnl two ~eck> ago hi. lungs
commenced bleeding again and he found
himself i"rmenied with excrnciating pains.
Although the letter dies not say so in d.
rect terms. il leaves the impression that he
means Ia seek relief from this
AGNoy ~ DEATH.
81 have come to the conclusion that ]
would get RID Of il some wav." lie then
adds: "For the sake OF suffering humanity,
give my body up To you and the other
doctors of S~dslis To examine it n yon
think proper, for the purpose fl discover
ing the cause Of my long suffering"
The letter reached the doctors hands
late Monday evening, and he At cnce
hunted mp some If his brother physicians.
with view Of visiting the writer, Ia see II
ANYTHING c,nld bc done to relieve his sui.
frring. lie did not get any one. however.
tn accompany him. aud the matter was
suffered to lay over until this morning
when at an early hour messenger was
dispatched To rast Se,lalia, 10 discover .ne
condition of tie dying man, and inquire
info the circumstances al the case.
Il Was very nat raj that the doctor
SIioULD rEEI. DEEPLY
the !urlorn condition Of the unfortunate /
man, who while in tie very agony Of death,
could vet have yearning compassion ~,
and As willing to surrender his !
ls-jy to the dis>cciins knife "a a possible
means of arrsiing the ravag,s al disease
similar To- his own. Tie messenger was
therefore Instructed IL
THE MAX WAS YET ALIVE
10 hurry hack, tina, the d.cior might hasten I
Ia him, ard ID what Was Yet lei, in his
power To smooth his way Ia the grave. II
is ma, the intention Of the BAzoo to attempt
Ia depict the doctors anxiety during the
in which these inquiries were
made. The word had gone abroad among
MS professional brethren, and the d"ctors
besan Ia assemble in little groups on the
street corners discussing with words of
esrned length and Latin sound, the disg-
,o-i, Of the disease. Even to an ordinary OBJ
erver il was evident that some hing unnsal
Vas up.
\ reporter who stopped for single mo-
nent abreast Of one If these excited
groups, a-certained that the subject u in
q rest was the most scientific method Of
dissection. One of them conieuded that
he limbs should all bc taken of before
he knife was applied Ia the trunk. The
hing could le got nj so much be,ier."
Another claimed 10 have the be>i set O;
nsi rumeris in the city, and he hal ju.t
inisl.ed putting them
IN ArrLE-rrs ORDER 4
ar this express occasion.
Jus, at this moment however. the mes
enger was seen coming down Ohio street,
IN his return from East Sedslia. For
;ngle instant an awe-struck silence fell
,pon the doctors, and then. by a sort Of
movement they gathered around
he messenger.
.lIe's gone!"
"Dead?" the doctors exclaimed in
,ieath.
"Eo."
"What. left the town.
NO" i
SWELL, veil, speak out man. Don't you
zee We are IMPATIENT
lie amt there--he never vas there"
"And the letter 10 DR.. Neale VAS