The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-11-13
A HORRIBLE CASE
IN BURLINGTON
"a Living Man aten Up bv
Maggots.
NOW A LIVING SKELETON
Dr." Bohannon Charged With Grim.
inal Negligence.
A LEGAL INVESTIGATION IS DEN-s0r0.
The Patient is a Grand Son Ct Gov. narIy The
Story of His Cruel keglec' BY His
Physician and People With
Whom He Lived.

\ mos horrible story IL pr|u'u.
this weeks issue of the Burliu..u.
News. \ story that calls for an ius.-
tigation by the courts OF the coua.
and one that if true should insure th.
| prosecution and punishment of tuu-.
responsible for it.
The details are too horrible ami r.-
| voting to be set forth here, bur The
facts as told by the News are these.
4 young mill operative named Hen
~ Jordan became i'll with fever about
| eight weeks ago. He was working lr
the Aurora mill and boarding at The.
| home of another operative, Amos Pick
EFT. DR.. Bohannon was his physician
until a week ago, when DR.. Stafford
was called in.
When DIR. Stafford wen to see l.r-
dan he found him a living skeleton
and such flesh as he had III his lower
limbs was rotten and eaten up by mag
COTS. To use DR.. Statford'S own words.
Il found him an emaciated skeleton.
with bed-sores on both hips, and the whole
internal aspect of the thigh and groin
in a state of gangrene, with thousand
of maggOtS working under the skin, thus
giving a most repulsive appearance 20
the case. 1t is apparent that the gan
creme is a result of neglect
The patient Jordan also made ID
statement to the News in which
he said that the ore first started ou
his back-bed sores, and he asked DE-.
Bohanan to look at them, but this h"
| --f,,~ - L. <,11;,r HIN, - rIl cha.
sores with red oak bark or wheat bran
He continued to get worse until the
sore extended to the inside Of his leg
and formed a sore in which maggot-
soon began to- work. He added:
Il begged him and pleaded with him 10
look at the sore and give me something
but he would not look at it, but told ME-
TO get some red-oak bark or wheat bran.
and l thought | was going to die.
Marion Jordan, the father Of the
sick man, arrived in Burlington Friday
morning of last week. He says:
4 found my son unconscious. l. va
one o'clock. before he recognized me-
When l raised the cover l found the whole
bed full Of maggots. The next morning
l saw them crawling all over tn" floor
When DR.. Stafford came we dressed the
sore together. 1t was in such an awful
condition, words fail me to describe If
Nh. Jordan lives near Siler CITY, In
Chatham county. He says his son Us
great-grand-son Of Gov. Manly on l|-
mothers side, and Of John Guthrie
on his fathers side.
Touching DIR. Bohanon and his Grim
inal neglect of Young Jordan. lr
Stafford has this to say further over
his signatures:
tActnStod hy a Ipcira tn know WHtt"|.
or not there was a physician in the ro1I-
ty of ~Alamance, practicing under Warrant
Of law, who would so neglect a patlyA'.
went to Graham to ascertain if 'p.
Bohannon had license to practice med
cine In this State and county. ! leaIA'-
from Clerk of Court Kernodle that he At.
been registered but that the license IA.
not been properly obtained, and was IT,
voked on the I'd Of January, 1900. 'It
kernodle says he knows BOhannoH g"
notice Of this. as he had acknopIeaE'.
the receipt of it. Since January the
1900, therefore,, DR.. BohannOn ha- poem
practicing without a semblance oil ''-.
pllance with the law.
w. G. STAFFORD
To this the Burlington New ""'-
by way Of comment on the FACTS
forth:
We have never known Of suc1
Of neglect in all our lives, and any -.
or family who would let d man
after day and be eaten up with mace
ought to be dealt with aCCord!A&
The case is a disgrace TO c-'.ll.
and we do not believe the people
llngton will stand by and lei f''
be silenced without full iaTesi!Aa
the parties guilty of such mcgee. ~.
We blame the doctor and We o.a.
people with whom he boarded.
excuse is that the doctor had
in hand and the man Of the A'.
to work all day in the mltl a-'
doctor did not consider the cas-
Gus enough to investigate ana o|a'
ment they did not consider ID
and the man doubtless Woule ..
there and rotted to pieces OUT
Blossoms reporting it TIC MI -..
In the name of decenCy anc
demand an investigation OF '"s ..
the authorities. The man "t