A man who by all the laws of nature should have died years ago is still very much alive. He is Mr. William Blackburn, a rabbit breeder, of Manchester Road, lluddersfield. and doctors are baffled by his remarkable case—for he has not slept an hour since undergoing a serious operation eight years ago. Every night he takes two'morphia tablets—and sits in bed reading and smoking, but does not even doze. When his daughter ivas ill recently he spent a fortnight nursing her ■without any rest at all. The doctors tell him not only that lie should have died years ago, but that he lias had enough morphia to kill several men.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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