The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-13
| HASN'T EATEN IN
MORE THAN ten YEARS.
,ov,e,E CASE OF POLICE COM.
| MISSIONER MURPHY.
u..d Of the New York Police Depart
lent a Physical Wonder No Food
Ever Passes His Palate.

commissioner Murphy is a
O'VJ wonder. in thai for the last
/ raars he has not tasted food lie
4 Nth his friends, talks with his
'A', and is a pleasant companion
| |,pr,I but when meal time comes
!. compelled to retire to a private
and pump specially prepared
4 ,.to his stomach through a silver
i iossrted below his oesophagus.
T., Murphy's case has attracted the
,,on and excited the wonder OF
n,adical world. In 1899, in the
IT, 81 an exciting political campaign
'aa attacked with acute indiges-
mbich caused a structure OF the
.hogus, He was unable to swal-
/ ooytbing. To prolong his life
,nt musicians decided upon what
informed him might be a fatal
I pertinent
rbov decided to cut into his throat
ofterward remove his stomach.
nos first decided that his stomach
m,Id have a rest, and for ffty-nine
L. he was fed unnaturally.
REFUSED AN ANAEsTHET1C.
|, assembling this operation Col.
&,rrbv has told how the physicians
4,Id Gather about his cot each morn
T. pxnecting to see him die. He re-
r. IN take an anaesthetic, even
hen the operation became one of the
IT, naipful under the knife, and
Matted with his doctors while it was
bing on.
2col. Murphy has told how he was
reed morning after morning to
Eallow yard of flexible rubber tub
until it reached his stomach.
brourh this tubing the doctors would
mr. a solution intended to cleanse the
sOnacb and heal the liberated parts.
be medicine was highly poisonous
Ia had the tube failed to reach the
Cper place, or had it been displaced,
patient would have been dead in a
inmates,
During this operation one OF the
ctor'S always held d watch, for it
Is dangerous to leave the solution too
b., for fear it might be absorbed by
e system. When the solution had
een there the proper length of time
was pumped out.
At the end of sixty days'the stomach
Jas pronounced healed, but meantime
be colonel almost died from starva-
*On.
He had been a man physically
bund, weighing 240 pounds. After
Re operation he was reduced to
Nghty-siX pounds. Col. Murphy
ghS today about ninety pounds.
d After consultation of the most ia
ROuS doctors of the country it was de-
Nded that the only thing that could
Beep COL Murphy from starving to
path was to cut into the abdomen and
Rsert a silver tube. He was told that
Mere was little chance for him to sur
e.
TO ahead" he said. "I've faced
#ath before, and I'll do it again. If
III forgive YOU"
ne wound from the incision healed
salnln few weeks and the operation
~ successful. Since that time no
~ mas passed his palate.
~ spite OF physical disability, the
q" commissioner has attended to pO-
zoal uutles with a caretulness which
e won the admiration of all his fell
y leaders IN Tammany. He has set
s. pace, In fact, for his associates in
s. democratic organization.
"a eI5 MS life the new head of the po-
81 department has displayed extraor-
~. LIN physical courage and indomit
BslIo, was born on March I, l84l, in
Hs ' o.' county Limerick, Ireland,
! was brought to New York when
years old.-New York Journal.