Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Breaks His Neck Often. [ARTICLE]

Breaks His Neck Often.

Albert Fatterson, the man whose neck literally hangs by a thread and who has been an inmate of Jefferson College since September last, intends leaving the hospital in a day or so comparatively cured—that is to say as near cured as he ever will be. When the man entered the hospital he had already broken his neck on three different occasions. He showed up at the hospital all of a sudden one day, and startled Dr. Egan by saying he had his neck broken some time before and he had felt a little pain back of it yet. Dr. Egan admitted him to the hospital, and found the case to be one of the most remarkable in the annals of surjpry. Dr. H. A. Wilson, the lecturer on orthopedies, afterward examined the man, and lectured on his case before a clinic. At this time Fatterson was wearing a stiff bandage round his neck, and, owing to it being an insufficient support, he jerked his neck out of place three times while in the hospital. On each occasion he fell down paralyzed, and but for the prompt attention of Dr. Egan in replacing his neck in position he would have died. Dr. H. A. Wilson, in order to obviate the recurrence of these accidents, devised a particular and special, apparatus to hold the man’s head in place and also a pair of tongs, which fold up small-enough to go into his pocket, but extending out far enough to permit of him picking up things from the floor without bending his neck.—Philadelphia Times.