Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-25 | Page 3 | Ten Months Tho' He Had No Stomach

TEN MONTHS THO HE HAD NO STOMACH f 9 CHICAGO Feb 25 Paul PauI Paul Krueger who had lived since last April a stomach is dead Krueger had been a curiosity to to physicians f income i he successfully endured the operation o for the removal of his c c. I at t a a. Chicago hospital The entire stomach was as taken out f Krueger was a florist at Graceland cemetery for many years He Heas Heas as attacked by cancer of the stomach and suffered untold agonies until f lC operation e was performed At the time this was done he was almost t th point of death death being unable to take tae any any food and was starving Should e could not have survived more than a week or two f Efter the removal of his stomach all pain ceased and he showed won- won f rul powers of recuperation Within a few weeks he was able to be f 1 keen Sen to his home and to eat liquid foods and such solids as mashed potro po- po tro ec many vegetables bread and other things Krueger was al able ablee le lef f e work ork of if theMO the stomach and performed it fairly well welI Kr Krueger gex was was able abe f MO do some wo work in the greenhouse Of late he failed rapidly and all sorts arts to keep him alive ali were l in vain L 4