The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
GEORGE FOSTER
IS PARALYzED.
co|ored Chauffeur Had Stroke While
Riding in Car of DR.. F. 3.
Dorsey Of This
City.
THOUGHT HE WAS HIT
Foster, Upon Resainlng Conscious
ness States He Was Thrown
Against Top of the
THOUGHT HE WAS HIT

II colored gentleman riding in
the rear seat OF an automobile going
at a rate of seventeen miles per hour |
over a good road bounced up and
struck his head against brace in
the canopy of the machine would the
blow paralyze him from the waist I'D?
Medical men who are experts on the
human skull, and other men who have
mad some experience bouncing things
on OF colored craniums declare that
the above sequence of cause and eff
1ect could not occur. George Foster,
however, who since about 7.30 Friday
morning he's been wondering what
happened to him, declares that it was
just such blow as has been describ-
ed that resulted in his being par,
alyzed from the waist up. The evil
dence, however, is all the other way,
and it is improbable that. the case of
the aforesaid George Foster will be-
come famous as an exception to all
the rules of medical science. Instead
the doctors state that Foster is in
Graham hospital as the result of an
ordinary case of cerebral hemorrhage
which is = common cause of paralysis
The circumstances under which
Foster suffered the stroke are what
make his case unusual. About 7.30
Friday morning he was riding in the
rear seat of the automobile of DR..
F. B. Dorsey about three and half
miles west of Kahoka, apparently in
the best of health and spirits. A few
moments later he was discovered I'M
conscious, huddled between the front
and rear seats, his head hanging for
ward, and his arm swinging outside
of the machine He was unconscious
and appeared to be paralyzed from the
waist up.
DIR. Dorsey who had spent the
night near Fox Island, about four and
a half miles south of Alexandria in
attendance on Charles Reed, was ac-
companied by Miss Mary Jackson of
Graham hospital The two put Fos-
ter back on the seat and ran the ma
chine on to Wyaconda where the help.
less man was taken to the office of
DIR. j. A. Swearingen and turned
over to his care. DR.. Dorsey proceed
ed to CORN where he had an urgent
professional call.
Both medical men made careful
examination of Foster and found
no bruises or contusions on any part
of his body. The case was typicaliy
one of paralysis, and there was no
evidence, the doctors say, that the
condition was the result of any ex-
ternal agency But when Foster came
to, he declared that he had been
stunned by humping his head against
the cover of the machine as the auto
mobile went over an inequality in the
road. Inasmuch as the machine at
| the time was running at very mod
! crate rate of speed over one of the
best roads in Clark county, and as
neither of the other occupants of the
car noticed any unusual jar, it appears
| that Fosters explanation of his mis-
| fortune is a not unnatural hallucina-
ton, which resulted from his unusual
surroundings when seized with the
stroke.
After being cared for during the
day by DR.. Swearingen, the colored
man was brought back to Keokuk Fri
day evening on the X. and w. and re
i moved at once to Graham hosnital
He was resting easily last night.