Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — WAS OPERATED ON 200 TIMES [ARTICLE]

WAS OPERATED ON 200 TIMES

Last Attempt to Remove Growth in Throat Proves Fatal to Baltimore Man. Baltimore. —After undergoing more than 200 operations during three years for the removal of a growth in the throat that interfered with his breathing, George McDowell, twentyone years old, formerly of Spartanburg, S. C., is dead at a hospital here. Death came while the surgeons were making a last httempt to save bis Jfe. For the past 18 months McDowell breathed through a silver tube in his throat He had been under so many operations that he became immune to the effectß of cocaine. Freezing was resorted to and then chlorofrorm to deaden the pain while they worked on the growth. The doctors knew that it was a muscular growth, but could not tell what kind. It contracted the man’s windpipe and at times all but closed 1L