The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-11-12
A Bad Fracture.
BY JOHN B. WILLIAMS, NJ. D.

'n0 moIhlHS tnot He was lntOxlCdteu IN tne
evening" Do not, however, Judge him with
too much severity, fortihas same morning
he had passed his fourth examination with
all white balls. There only remained fol
him another step to give him bis diploma as
physician, and under these circumstances, it
was excusable for him TO invite three OF
four of his friends, and celebrate the occa.
sion. Besides, he very rarely INDUCED in
any dissipation, but usually led the most so.
Der life in the world. Three words will
suffice to make the reader understand why
this was the case. He was resident pupil
in the Hotel.Dieu! Oh! you who have pas.
sed through this trying ordeal can sympa-
thize with Lebrun-you, who remember the
hard fare, hard work, and hard lectures at
tached to that venerable hospital, can we'll
excuse. .Lebrun for being intoxicated on the
day of his fourth examination.
However, to our story: On that day, Le'
brun was in an exceedingly improper state
This was more remarkable when he return.
ed to the hospital in the evening.
Where he'd Lebrun passed the dayl No
one, not even he himself, could tell. Wher-
FsVer it might buve been, when he returned
to the hospital at four o'clock in the after.
noon, the porter, when he saw him, smiled
in singular manner. The good man was
right-Lehruu, who had left the hospital in
the morning, with firm and steady step, re-
turned intoxicated in the evening. He &C..
cehded the stairs with tottering gait
With his shoulders thrown back, with his
head high in the air, he walked with ,ull the
majesty of intemperance. His marvellous
dignity was slightly interfered with, when
he fell over the top step of the stairs, but
he soon recovered himself, and abruptly EN-.
tered the ward, and without even wip;ng his
shoes, made directly for the closet in " hch
his intimate friend Annibal was accustomed
Ito PIT his apron. This apron he tied Ground
him., IT is tree,' it took him ten minutes to
tastes Ae strings behind him, and he tried
in vain to,make bow, but was obliged 10
compromise the matter by tying them in
knot.
The Sister attached to the ward locke d at
him earnestly, and seeing his face flushed.
partly by impatience and partly by the fumes
Of wine: she asked il he was not sick.
Iph INN l., do.
ton. and as he was conscious Of his condi.
aion,.he did not dare to make any answer
but contented himself BY staring at her With
fixed eyes. THE Sister could not help blush.
ing at his earnest gaze, and turned away her
head. Alter which Ldbfun gruve'y com.
menced Lis evening visit.
| had almost forgotten TO say that LIE.
bruins friend, Annbal, had that day begged
him to make the evening visit round the
ward, he !.AnnibaD having some other bu$i.
ness to attend to. must add thatttho ward
was surgical one, and, consequently, con.
tained only surgica'cases.
At the first bed. Lebrun took the invalid's
hand, and, with his doctorial eye half los.
ed, gently felt the patients pulse.
The poor fellow look ut him anxiously.
"You are feverish this evening" said LIE.
brun, resolutely. "Sister, basin if you
please"
And he bled him copiously. .
"There, that will do you good" said he,
passing to the second bed.
Here, again, he found the patient in q
high fever-another copicus bleeding.
At the third bed he had scarcely felt the
patients pulse, when he shook his head
knowingly, and called the overscer of the
ward and Sister to his side.
"Thcse patients hare been eating highly
seasoned food" said he-"they are all Of
them in,a,hiEh fever"
The Sister affirmed that she had not gone
beyond the usual ordinance. ;. j.,
"Then it is you," said Lebrun to the ov,
erseer.
John earnestly assured the student taat
he had given the patients nothing.
"Hold your tongue" said Lebrun severe.
ly. "If you have given them nothing to
eat, you thaye certainly given them some.
thing to drink"
| And he pronounced these last words in
such an angry tone, that .the, unfortunate
overseer Gnnocent though he was) was too
frightened to make any reply.
The fact is, it was no fault of John tha
Lebrun had too freely breakfasted tina
morning, and that he was consequently de-
ceived in the evening, taking the pulsatior
Of his own arteries for the patients pulses
and finding in others the fever which wal
only in his own system.
He lectured everybody in the ward.
'.It is SHAMEFUL" said he, in spite OF ths
denials of the Sister, the invalids, and tht
overseer---sit is shameful to use the patients
in this manner, when they were SO well thi'
morning." .a
! And he went on bleeding and re.bleed
ing, finding the fever of the patients in
creasing in the same proportion as his owl
anger and dispfeasure increased the activity
! of his.o%n circulation.
i After the tenth patient had been bled. th,
i Sister, not knowing what to make of it, an,
fearing that with the lancet once betweei
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