Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-08-20
ar,sta kes q. Physicians.


aristakes Of Physicians. A'' :. =
Oliver ". Holmes. in lecture upon
physicians. gives the following account
Of SOM" mistakes which have been made
IN medicine: - 'sl'Ail s. -
'.Sooner or later every body stripped
up in forming diagnosis. l saw Vel.
peau tie one Of the carotid arteries for q
supposed aneuFism. which was only III =
Gle harmless tumor. and kill his pa;iep .
Mr.. Dease, Of Dublin, was more for
tunate in case: he boldly declared an
abscess. while others thought it an aneur-
ism. He thrust lancet into It and proved
himself in the right. Soon after he made
asimilar diagnosis. He thrusrin his lam
Get as before. and out gushed the pa.
TENTS blood and his lite with it. The
next morning Mr.. Dease was found dead
and floating in his own blood. He had
divided shs femorsl srtery.
=, -ss -
have doomed people, and seen others
doom them, over aud over again, on the
strength Of physical signs. and they have
lived in The most contunacious and scien-
tiically unjust fable manner us long a.
they liked and some Of them are living
still. | ste two men in the street very
often. who were both as good as dead in
the opinion Of all who saw them in their
extremity. People will insist on living,
sometimes. though manitestly mori6und
In DR.. Elders Life Of Kane you will fud
case of this sort. told by Kane himself
The captain of a ship was dy ing of sou =
W, but the crew muIinisd. and he gave
up dying Tor the present to take care o
them.
An old lady in this city. near her end
got little Vexed about proposed chang
in her will. made up her mind not to vi,
just then ordered a coach. was driven
twenty miles 10 the hous of n relative. ind
lived for TOUR years longer. CoItoI
MaIber tells sonie good sIuIIss Mich IL
picked up in his experience. or out o. h
books, sho rp lhs unstable equilibrium o
proghosis. Simon Stone was shot in nine
places. and as he lay for dead the In
dians made two hacks with a hatcl oil 10
cut his head of. he got well. however.
and was lrsty fellow in Cotton MaIher'l
time. Jabez Musgrove was shot with j."
bullet that went in at his ear and came
ont at his eye on the other side. A cou>
pie OF bullets went through his body also
'Jabez got we'll, however, and lived many
years. Per contra. Colonel Resiter.
cracking plum stone with his teeth
broke q tooth and lost his lite. We have
seen physicians dying. like Spigelius.
from a scratch and a man who had D
croWbar shot through his head is aliv.
and we'll. These extreme cases are warn
Ings. But you can never be too cautiou>
IN your prognosis. in the view Of III.
great uncertainty of the course of any
disease not long watched. and the many
unexpected turns it may take"
BEAUTIFUL ANEcDoTE "A happier il
lustration OF the wonderful character o.,
the Bible. and the facility with which
even child may answer by it the great
est OF questions. and solve the sublime 81
OF mysteries. was perhaps never given at
that at an examination Of a d. af anc
dumb institution. two or three years 81
10 the city OF London.
a little boy Was asked in writing
"WhO made the world z"
He took the chalk. and wrote under
meath the question.
"ln the beginning God created th.
heavens and the earth"
The clergy man then enquired In sim
liar manner.
why did Jesus Christ coma into til.
world 81
A smile Of delight and gratitude rested
en- the cOuntenance OF the little fellow at
be wrote:
This is a faithful saying. and wor-
thy OF all accrptativn. that Jesus ChriA,
came in to the world to save Sinners"
A third was then proposed. evidentl,
adapted to call the most powerful feeling 8
into exercise p:
"Why were you born deaf and dumb
when | can hear and speak 81
Never" said an eye witness, "shan
forget the resignation which sat upor
his countenauce as he took the chalk ana
commenced writing:
even 60. Father. for it seemeth good
in Thy sight"
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