The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-08-19
DR.. JOHN B,
MURPHY DEAD
BY HEART DISEASE
WHILE ON VACATION IN MlCHl-
GAN-WAS RECENTLY KNIGHT
ED BY POPE FOR RESEARCHES
IN MEDICINE.

DR.. John B. Murphy, of Chicago, one
of the worlds most renowned sur
geons, and we'll known in this city,
died suddenly last Friday at a hotel at
Mackinac Island, Michigan, while
there on summer outing. An attack
of heart disease was the immediate
cause of death.
Doctor Murphy had been in poor
health for several months, and some
had ascribed his condition to the poi
soned soup partaken at the banquet
given to Archbishop Mundelin, at the
University Club in Chicago last winter.
His wife was with him at the time of
death.
Doctor Murphy had been indisposed
since last February. He had been
overworked during the winter and
finally developed aortis, which extend
ed to the pancreas. When hot weather
struck Chicago several weeks ago,
Doctor Murphy and his wife went to
the Chicago golf club and lived. AS
the heat became more extreme the
surgeon grew worse and decided to go
to the cooler climate of northern
Michigan.
The change of climate failed to
benefit the doctor. Thursday he had
a sinking spell and state of partial
coma followed. He remained in pre-
carious condition until an acute at
Friday afternoon and died suddenly.
DR.. Murphy was knighted recently
by Pope Benedict for his researches
in surgery.
Doctor Murphy first came into inter-
national fame through his specializing
in intestinal disorders, and invented
what was known as the Murphy but
ton, making Possible operations which
heretofore had been deemed impos-
sible. He was credited by many with
being the first surgeon to perform op-
0ldLlOLo lO1 dppCl1uAClJ1S.
Doctor Murphy was the third promi-
nent Chicagoan to die out of several
hundred who ate poisoned soup at the
banquet to Archbishop Mundelein last
winter at the University club. Physi-
clans have said that these deaths were
not due to the after-effects of the poi
son put in the soup, it is said by Jean
Crones, at the time cook at the club.
Doctor Murphy was popular among
all who knew him for his incisive judg-
ment in diagnosis, his philanthropy to
poor patients, and his witticisms. On
receiving the order of knighthood from
the Pope, Doctor Murphy was said to
have remarked: Nov l have the
same title at both ends of my name,
Sir John Murphy, Surgeon
President of the American Medical
association in 1913, elected the same
year to be president of the Clinical
Congress of Surgeons of America,
John Benjamin Murphy had received
the most dignified honors that could
be accorded a surgeon in this country.
He was acknowledged as one of the
foremost operators of his time. His
clinic at the Mercy hospital in Chicago
was a mecca for surgeons all over
the world.
Gained Many Honors.
From twenty to several times that
number of distinguished medical men
from Europe as we'll as this continent
would be found among the students in
the amphitheater almost any day that
Murphy was to operate
| He was born in Appleton, Wis.,, De-
cember FL, 1857. He was educated in
the public schools, the University of
Illinois, Rush Medical college of Chi
cago, and Germany. Half a column
might be filled with the titles and hon
ors he gained.
Doctor Murphy reached pre-emi-
nence in every branch Of surgery, but
he may be called the founder of the
present system of intestinal surgery.