Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-13
CANCERS DEADLY INROADS.
Dreadful suncrinss Of senator Hiii CT C.eOrSia Report Of the Attending
 Physician.
Corr. Chicago -ribun'


 Meeting Dr. k. B. Ridley, sOn-in-law
 Of Senator Hill, and one of his attend
 ing physicians, to-day, questioned him
 upon the condition and treatment of
 the Senator. Speaking Tn a very de-
 pressed spirit, Dr. Ridley said: "Ihe
 patient is put tO sleep every night
 about eight o'clock with a hypOdermic
 injection or morphine, and does not awake until eleven o'clock the following
 morning. He is then dressed and rests during the day in an easy chair near the window of a pavilion attached to the north side of his residence, opening 10 the east on to yeranda- There he sits the whole day, subject to the most as- sIduOus attentions from his relatives.
 He reads a little occasionally-news- papers, his mail and some devotional
 works-also writes down his passing impressions, writes few letters and communicates to those to whom his almost inarticulate murmurings are un- intelhgible. Three grains of morphine are administered daily, the patient never being allowed to come thoroughly from under it's influence. His food con- sisis of milk, into which the yolks of eggs have been added and beaten, this mixture is passed into the patients stomach daily through a tube The cancer, for such the disease IS acknOw- lcdged to be by all but those who have not had any connection with the case, has destroyed all the tissues of the throat and mouth on the left side, as well as the lower jaw. The opening IS so large that two or three fiDgners can be passed up into the mouth from below, and the palate can be seen when the patient Is lying down and'one stands at his feet. The outer carotid artery IS exposed and puisation is plainly visible. The soft or connective tissue has been eaten away, and only such tough, elastic substances as compose the walls of the artery are left intact What is Jeff of the tongue Is attached to the right side by very slen- der hgament, and the constant fear Is felt that 1t will become detached and fall into the patients throat while asleep. His mouth IS kept filled with absorbent and antiseptic cotton, which IS fre- quently changed, as IS the dressing on the outside. No internal remedy Is now given, nor has any been administered since the abandonment of the French | cancer cure, which consisted in the ln- iection into the circulation of purified | acid, the object being to destroy l the cOncuOus germs of the blood. The | evidences of the sufferers entire resig- | nation to the fate in store for him are | numerous. The other day he called his l son Charley to him, saying: 'I am go- ing to better land, Charley. Don't you | wish that you could come along, tco? | These are the happiest days of my life" In writing to an old servant now in | Athens, Ga, where he lived when first | elected to Congress, he repeated that | this was the happiest period of his ex- istence. In this letter Mir. Hill stated | that he might have been guilty of errors | in his life, but now felt fully prepared | to meet his Maker. The Lord had given lim a good, long notice, and he was ready for the summons. The final | change will, it is thought, come from sheer exhaustion. IT the morphine were | Mr. Hill would soon die from | .lt4 4tfarEz Gf fla main