The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
A REMARKABLE IMPOSTOR.
A French Malingerer Who Deceived
Doctors for Years.

Paris Correspondence London News.
For ten years Delannoy has deceived the
greatest French doctors. DR.. Charcot and
others, and his miraculous cure at
Lourdes is on record as one of the most
irrefutable proofs of the supernatural vir.
tues of that shrine. 1t baffied the critical
mind even Of NJ. lola, who mentions this,
to him. inexplicable case. in his book on
Lourdes. Delannoy was from 1877 TO 1881
a warder in the Paris hospitals. His ex-
d peplenss OF ex norpsssdd n IN d Lee ham p 90 the
that the ideal state of happiness in this
world Is that of a patient. in a hospital.
toms of many diseases. and he determined
to sham some infirmity. After some con-
sideration he selected paralysis He was
admitted TO the Salpetriere. Hospital, made
famous all the world over by DR.. Charcot,
and he played his part so well that DR..
Charcot himself diagnosed without hesita-
ward at the Hotel Dieu. In 1866 we find
him at the Necker Hospital. where DIR.
Rigal gave him blisters with red,hot irons
on both sides of the backbone. In 1886 he
became DIR. Balls patient at the same hos
pital. This physicians course of treat
injections of morphine, was so delightful
to- the patient that the latter remained in
this ward for a whole year He left the
hospital cured, but returned In 1891 to the
Necker Hospital, where he found his old
acquaintance, DIR. Rigal, and his terrible
blisters. The false paralytic did not rel
1Sh Sucn rough treatment, anu ne Soou lelt
this inhospitable establishment. and tried
the Hotel Dieu, where he was with DR..
Empis. In January, 1855. Delannoy re-
for one month the patient of the uncon-
genial DIR. Rigal, who confirmed the former
diagnosis, and continued to ply him with
Beaujon, in July the Charlie. in October
Lariboisiere. and paid another flying visit
to the Hotel Dieu, where he was looked
a amer DR. py Duran 1q Fardel. After this Deian..
noy became the patient OF Prof. DuJardin-
Beaumetz at the Cochin Hospital. The
false paralytic underwent rat In unwlll-
This consists in hanging the patent by a
collar SO that only the tips of the toes
iengthens without breaking the shrunken
spinal marrow. In the space of two
months Delannoy was hung up ffty-eight
times.
seems to nave been disguised with doctors,
so he bethought himself OF a new profess
sion. that of the sick man healed by
wide lola OPP. cit.G he arrived at Lourdes
in the most pitable condition. He was
carried to the Virgin Mary's gro,to, kissed
trate before the Holy Sacrament displayed
at the altar. Suddenly. as ne related a
few hours later TO the beamlng fathers Of
ing of an inner force that impelled him,
almost in spite of himself. TO stand, walk.
and drop the crutcn Win Whch ne was
hardly able to crawl. The pilgrims accom-
panied him, singing hymns of praise. In
the evening one of those stirring sights. a
torchl.ght procession OF pilgrims was seen
threading its way up the zigzag paths OF
Massab.elle in rejoicing for the miracle
Delannoy was placed in the foremost rank
The day following he was medically ex-
amined in the presence of Mgr. Berchiaila.
Archbishop of Cagliari and Primate OF
Sardinia, and by the Bishop of Hebron.
man were found to be those OF locomotor
ataxia. and it was found that they had
disappeared. The annals or Notre Dame
de Lourdes duly recorded this miracle, to
which n. lola has attached permanent
celebrity. Delaney returned to Paris a