Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-17
CANCERS DEADLY INROADS.
Dreadful Sufferings Of Senator Hill of
Georgia. Report of the Attending
Physician.
lChicago Tribune.

ATLANTA, Ca, July 26th.-Meeting DR.. Il.
Ridley, son-in-law of Senator Hill, and one
of his attending physicians, to-day, l ques-
toned him upon the condition and treatment
Of the Senator. Speaking in a very de-
pressed spirit. DIR. Ridley said: The patient
is put to sleep every light about eight o'clock
with hypodermic injection of 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 q pavilion stretched to the
north side of his residence, opening to the
east on to a veranda. There he sits the
whole day, subject to the most assiuous at
tentions from his relatives. He reads lit
tie asionally-newspapers, his mail and
some devotional works-alsO writes down
his passing impressions, writes few letters
and communicates to those to whom his al
most inarticulate murmurings are unintelli-
gible. Three grains of morphine are admin
istered daily, the patient never being allowed
to come thoroughly from under its influence.
His food consists of milk, into which the
yolks of eggs have been added and beaten,
with a little whisky. About three quarts OF
this mixture is passed into the patients
stomach daily through tube. The cancer,
for such the disease is acknowledged to be
by all but those who has not had any con-
nection with the case, have destroyed all the
tissues of the throat and mouth on the left
side, as we'll as the lower jaw. The opening
| is so large that two or three fingers 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 isexposed, and pulsation
is plainly visible. The soft or connective
has been eaten away, and only such tough,
hcfo nnn n
the artery are left intact What is left of
the tongue is attached to the right side by a
very slender ligament, and the constant fear
is felt that it will become detached and fall
into the patients throat while asleep. His
mouth is kept filled with absorbent and an
tiseptic cotton, which is frequently changed,
as is the dressing on the outside. No inter-
nal remedy is now given, nor has any been
administered since the abandonment of the
French cancer cure, which consisted in the
injection into the circulation OF purified car
bolic acid. the object being to destroy the
cancreous germs ofthe blood. The evidences
of the sufferers entire resignation to the fate
in store for him are numerous. The other
day he called his son Charley to him, saying:
II am soon going to a better land, Charley.
Don't,you wish that you could come along,
too? These are the happiest days of my
life In writing to an old servant now i'll
Athens, Ga, where he lived when first elect
ed to Congress, he repeated that this was the
happiest period of his existence. In this let
ter Mr.. 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 him good long notice, and he was
ready for the summons The final change
will, it is thought, come from sheer exhaus-
tion If the morphine were suspended Mr..
Hill would soon die from the effects of the
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