Daily Oklahoman, February 16- 1911, p. 10. NOTE: The item below was
abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis.
A POLICE CHIEF WON LONG FIGHT
Officer Is Victor in a Long Drawn Out Struggle for Existence with a Queer
Enemy
Bedford, Indiana, Feb. 15-One of the strangest stories that ever startled
the people of this section was made public recently by Chief of Police John
Gretzer of this city who tells a story of twelve long years of suffering
that recently ended in the expulsion of a tapeworm that actually measured 35
feet in length.
During all these years the body of Bedford's police chief furnished a place
of abode for this repulsive creature which sapped his strength and
undermined his health. All of the nourishment taken into his stomach went
to sustain the life of this monster whose voracious appetite at times
demanded great quantities of food and at other times its presence would
nauseate his victim to such an extent that he could
not bear the sight of food. His digestion was ruined and all the functions
of the stomach and bowels became deranged; his sleep was irregular, his face
pallid and his breath offensive. There were severe pains in the region of
his stomach, a sense of dizziness and floating spots before his eyes, but
with all of these distressing symptoms, no one was aware of the real cause
of the sufferer's trouble until recently.
A few weeks ago Col. Frank A. Dillingham of Cincinnati, Ohio, a widely known
traveler and lecturer on disease, came to Bedford and Chief Gretzer at once
laid his case before him. After being told of the remarkable success of
Plant Juice in expelling tapeworms, the chief decided to give the medicine a
trial and two days later held in his hand a bottle that contained the
35-foot parasite that had made his life a nightmare of pain and misery for
twelve years, while he thanked the Plant Juice remedies for his relief.