Gouverneur Morris was one of America’s Founding Fathers. He was called the “Penman of the Constitution” because he wrote the Preamble. It was he that led off the document with “We the People…” He was a great man who suffered bodily throughout his life. As a boy, half of his body was scalded with hot water. He had a leg amputated due to a carriage accident. He suffered from gout. Finally, when he was 64 years old, he came down with a urinary tract blockage. He decided to cure himself. He took a whale bone to use as a catheter. It did not go well and besides the enormous pain this must have caused, he got an infection that took his life. Don’t try his cure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_Morris
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