Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-18
A WONDERFUL CASE
Mccarthy No Longer Breathes
 Like a Steam Engine.
SEVERAL YEARS OF TORTURE.
Physicians Gavs Hin Up but Father
 Adams Used the Faith Cure

Tho Hotelkeeper's Respiration Reached
 as High as Three Hundred Per Minute,
 But It Is Now NormaI-He Was am Un-
 welcome Guest at Hotels, Where the
 Other Guests Complained That His
 Breathing Sounded Like a Bellows-
 He Could Eat aud Speak Only With
 Difficulty.
 NEW YORK, Feb. lS.-Michael B. Mo Carthy, proprietor of the West End Hotel. offers himself as a living proof of the efficacy of the faith cure. In 1889 Mo Carthy, then a Boston policeman, was thrown from the platform of an electric car and struck on his head and should CTS. His bruises healed quickly enough, but about ten days after the accident it became evident that he had sustained some internal injury.
 His breath began to come a great deal faster than he wanted it and he called in one doctor after another until there was scarcely reputable physician in Boston who was not taking an active interest in his case. In spite of them all, however, his respiration grew more and more rapid until it reached the unprecedented rate of lSO a minute-teu times the normal rate.
 The physicians were almost unanimous in locating the seat of the trouble in the brain. They believed that the nerves controlling the respiratory organs had suffered injury, and made all sorts of experiments in the hope of hitting upon the remedy. At length they pronounced McCarthy's case incurable, but as his health was apparently unimpaired by his malady they predicted that he would live for years if he kept out of the reach of pneumonia.
 Mccarthy went South, stopping in thi, city on his way to be examined at Roose- welt and Bellevue Hospitals. His respir- ation had got close up to a 25O-rate and was still rising. He was an unwelcome guest at hotels because his stertorous breathing attracted the attention of every body who happened anywhere near him. He suffered constant torture be cause the quick, jerky respiration rasped his throat and kept it raw and sore.
 In April last he returned North and soon obtained control of the West End Hotel, but his affliction injured his busi- ness prospects and he again resorted to th2 doctors. On the Sd inst he was ex- ;mined again at Bellevue and his respi- ration registered 300. Dr. Henry B. Cooper and all the other experts once more pronounced his case incurable.
 Mccarthy recently heard of Father Adams, the clergyman whom Bishop lsoughin suspended from priestly duties about fifteen years ago. He had lost all faith in regular medical practitioners and was willing to see whether prayer and contact with holy relies would dc him any good.
 Accordingly he visited Father Adams al IA South Fourth street, Brooklyn. The priest told him to have faith in Sod s power to help him, and in the potency of the holy relics which he was about to sec, Father Adams prayed with him before a little altar, and then pro duced what he says are particles of flesh of several martyred saints, a piece of the manager in which Christ was born, and a chip of stone from the tomb in the Garden of Gethsemane.
 These relics were passed about the patients neck and shoulders and he was then dismissed with 8 blessing. Nc | Carthy noticed no change in his condition as he left the priests house. Five hours | later he tainted. When he regained | consciousness he was overjoyed to find himself cured. His respiration had dropped to it's normal rate. Dr. Cooper and Dr. Black called to seC Mccarthy and spent long time witI him. Dr. Cooper told 8 reporter las | evening that the cure, no matter how il was brought about, is 8 fact He de | scribes it as hypnotic cure and is of tht ] opinion that, if Mccarthy had ever before used so much will power as he had exer cised in the presence of Father Adam he would have recovered long ago..