The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

GARIBALDL

(FROM OUR SYMCIAL COREMPONDEST.)
SPEZZIA, Om 29.

The eminent French surgeon, Nelaton, a great
authority on gunshot wounds, came last night, saw
Garibaldi, and declared that the ball might be present,
but that there was no case for amputation. M. Nela-
ton left immediately after his visit, and though •
telegram from M. //fattened, the Minister, requested
the favour of a brief halt at Turin, to discuss some
question relating to the new College of Medicine,
the great French operator could only acoord him
half an hour or so, before he should start for Paris.

There are now here Porta and Zanetti, Maestri,
Zio, Gherardi, and Tanderiui of Carara, a village
surgeon, who performs the highest operations of
surgery with a speed, dexterity and suocees, that the
first men in London or Paris could not excel.

To any one who has seen the stream of people chat-
ting, laughing, or smoking, who pour in and out of
Garibaldi's quarters all day long—now stopping to
read a paragraph in a newspaper, now to listen
to a joke, now to light a cigar with the red-ahirted
acolytes who throng the antechamber, and oc-
casionally passing into the very chamber of the sick
man—there does not seen, anything strange in that
large group in the square before the door where the
twelve doctors are all talking with a considerable
crowd of listeners around them, and who are, doubt-
less for the first time in their lives, assisting at a
medical consultation. How eagerly they listen to
that stern-looking old man with the grey hair
streaming over his coat and collar—that is Porta. ;
and how anxiously they bend down to hear what
that diminutive, stooping, bright-eyed Zanetti
is saying ; and who is tie red-shirted lady
with the bright auburn hair and fair skin, evidently
not Italian, though her sympathies are certainly
on this side the Alps 1 She is a well-known
English lady, whose name has already figured
widely in the circles of Mazziciauism. Well, we are
not much the wiser—we of the outer bar—who have
listened for the last half-hour to learned discus-
sions on the force of projectiles and the resisting power
of the ligament. of the ankle joint. The scene is,
however, an exciting one ; there is a great deal at
stake—more than the life of one man usually com-
passes—for were Garibaldi to die, the effect would
be retrospective as well as future. Happily, how-
ever, thereis no apprehension of this. Nellaton
augured most favourably of the case, though frankly
confessing that it would be tedious and painful.
The Consultation—a rather warm discussion, I
understand—is now over. Porta examined the
wound fully with his finger, and has ascertained
that the ball is somewhere, but not in the articula-
tion, which is the really important point, for it at
once sets at rest all question of amputation. The
case, he opines, will be a very tedious one ; that
all exploration after the ball would be highly
injurious, and that the convalescence will be a mat-
ter of some mouths. The great point is, however,
decided ; there is no peril to life, no need of ampu-
tation. Fragments of bone will continue to be
detached, and with these the ball, if there, may
some day or other make its appearance. The friends
of Garibaldi have, therefore, good news ; and you
may tell them the tidings with the safe assurance
that they come from the best authorities in science
Italy possesses ; men who are fully the equals of
any in France or in England.