Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
Anxious to Know What Ails Him.
Offering $500 to Anyone who Can Tell Him, and s1, 900 for a Cure.
 IFrom the New York sun-l


 N. MeGregor Steele of 74 Downing street, Brooklyn. writes to the Brooklyn EdSk;
 The doctors have assured me there is DO hope of my recovery that my disease is such that cannot possibly get we'll The most they can say for me is that there may be few chances to become @ conforta. ble invalid. I state to them all I had much rather die.
 Dr. Alonzo Clark of this city examined him, and determined that be had ''thickening of the coats of the stomach" He says that the doctor Hooked at me apparently for the last tine," saying, Your disease IS fatal" He sent for Dr. Doomis of this city, who was positive he had "thickening of the coats of the stomach, with adhesions of the stom- ach to the iver," and thought that possibly there might be cancerous matter in the stomach" !" Dr. Loomis said be could not get we'll. but if he went to the seashoFe he "miRht live awhile" MT. Steele sent to Vermont for Dr. Goldsmith, an old family physieiaI.p V ho said his patient most die of the same disease as his mother Hers was cancer in the throat; the sons was cancer in the stomach MT. Steele, noting the wide a:r--=.--> :-. .hs -:-:-ic.s nf thasa doctors harbored a hope that all might be mistaken, and called in Dr. Stevens of Brooklyn late ot St. Louis. Dr. Stevens agreed with Drs- Clark and Loomis. "Ho says" hr. Sttele writes ''thst the disease is not .acnrable.
 
 such cases He scouts the idea of cancer.a Dr. Willard Parker examined him last September and advised hIm SA go horseback riding and to be careful what be sts, bat sS.i nothing about the ailments the otheyE pointed out Dr. J. c. Petels of .his city in January said the patient miaht have u'oe- nr gastr1tis.
 Since then" Mr. Steele adds, T have been examined by Doctors Clark, Loomis, Goldsmith, Terry and StevenS. as .nsrrlGod. and all differ 50 To--E think have the right now to esk il some one will not tell Ire what diseese I am suffering from care nothing about dyinS but disir>e leaJing this world without knowing the 6iseass l die z5l- will give anyone $500 to tell me my disease and keep me alive long enough to Snish up some little wart 1 have on hand, say six months or a year, or I will give Sl 900 te know my disease and be cured n These are his symptoms, substantially, as be describes .bSm
 The taste and smell of all kinds of food is simply delicious to -3e, yet when I come to eat my stomach will not bear Int the simp plegt kind such as milk, raw oysters, buttermilk, corn starch, soup wiSh rice, rice and milk and juice of steak. I ceunot take anything into my stomach of a fibrous character. 1 eat every two hours but of course in small quantitiaz If 1 take the least bit too much. or anything which does not agree with me, I am pat into the most acute agony with pairs in my back and stomach. Were I no. % control the pains have with hyPodermic in- ieetione, I must surely die at once.
 Ifs saga that when hs anticipates pain ne takes hypodermic injection and Den be- comes the most comfortable man f1 Brook lynh H. says he hts asked every sOetor hs has seen for month who ius snted aypf,der. mic injections, but none can tell him He tSink- She inventor "ought to lave mona- ment to reach from earth to heaven.