The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-10-29
RUINED by DRUGS.
Horrible Example Of the Effects of s5orgh,ne
and 0ocame.

Borrbie Example of The Effects of klorghJHe.
and 0ocame.
A man With more than one thous
sand scan On his body lies on a cot at
the County Hospital at Chicago. He
is the victim of the use of morphine,
cocaine and other poweriul:drugs. His
story is an interesting one, and, as
DIR. McNamara says, che is an .exs
cellent subject for novelist. When
an attendant removed tbeIcloihing Of
the patient the skin of his emaeiated
form looked like that OF a ,attooed
man. He was black and blue from
neck to ankles, the result of five
years use of hypodermic syringe.
The mans name is George ,Moynaux
q Mayneard, = French physician Of
thirty Eve, learned ia his profession,
speaking four languages and a gradu-
ate Of the University of Heidelberg,
Germany.
lie vas picked up Sunday night at
Halsted and Jackson streets. His
clothing was old ard torn and he
looked like tramp. He had taken
a dose Of atropia, hne 2f.the deadlicst
OF pois9ns, and in one Of his pockets
were found two Walls, che containing
enough atrepia to killsfity men ana
about fifteen grains of cocaine in the
other. At the hospital Moyneaux at
first refused to give his name, but
after some persuasion DR.. Mcnamara
secured it and apertiou Of an uofott-
unate's history.
After graduating AZ Heidelberg
Moyneaux went to Paris, where he
built up lucrative practice. Sever.
al years after establishing himself in
the French capital Moyneaux began
to experiment with the use Of NOR
phine and cocaine He chose him.
self to practice upon. He took the
drugs in moderate injections, and one
day he thought he made grand dis
covery. He found he could take
cocaine with impunity aud counteract
its effects by taking atropia. This
theory has long ago been exploded by
medical men, except that atropia TAX
en- with morphine or cocaine will kill
the efectsof either OF the drugs and
leave the patient in the condition he
was before he took the poison.
However, Moyneaux's experiments
ended disastrously, and he fell vic
tim to cocaine and morphine. Short
ly before he fell into the street Satur.
day night he bad injected ten grains
Of cocaine into his body and, still be-
lieving in his theory, had taken a
dose of atropia. He evidently took
too much, as it rendered him uncon-
SOA'uS- Hio WAS Tie Sdu emu OF MS
former splendid career in Paris,
where he lost his practice and came to
America. Here he sank lower and
lower, every cent he could procure
going toward the purchase of the on-
ly poison that could give him tenn
Dorary bliss
MQyneaux suffered LID osony
after ADMISSION to the hospital. He
vas given an injection of two grains
of morphine, but this was not one
twentieth Of the amount sufficient for
him, and he begged and pleaded in
four different languages to be given
the injector and bottle of cocaine. The
man writlled and twisted about in a
frightful manner and stared like a
wild man at those about him. Final
ly DIR. Mcnamara had to take ex-
IRENE measures and strap the unfor>
tunate man to The bed. "He will
die, said the doctor "and there is
no help for him, he is so far gone. I
never before saw such a desperate
case