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MISTAKES OF PHYSICIANS.


MISTAKES OF PHYSICIANS.
Oliver W. Holmes physician, philoso-
pher and poctO in lecture upon physi-
clans, gives the following account of some
mistakes which have been made in medi
cine:
Sooner or later, every body is trippel up
in forming 4 diagnois. SAW, Velpeau tie
one Of the carotid arteries for supposed
anculism, which WAS only little harmless
! tu,nor, and kill his patient. Mr.. Deasc, Of
DsbIin, WIS more fortunate IL a case he
holAly declared an ahsccSs, while Others
thought i; IN ancursm. He thrust lance,
into it, and proved himself in the right.
! Soon after, lie maze similar diagnosis.
i; He thrust i,r his lancet, as before, and ou,
s''Shcd the patieul's blood, and his life with
II. The next morning Mr.. Drase was
found dead, AMI floating in his blood. lie
had divided the fe,noral artery. have
doomed people, and seen others doom them
over and over again, oe the strength Of
phySicaEsigns, and they have lived in the
most contuniacious and scientifically I'M
Jnst:tiablc manner as long as they lived and
some are living still. see two men in the
street very often, who were ho,h as good
as dead i'll ,hc opinion Of all who saw them
III their extremity. People will insist OH
living sometimes through mani!rsl!y mort
bond. In DIR. Elders life OF Kane you will
find Il story Of this sort told by DIR. Kane
himself. The captain Of ship was dying
with scurvy, but the crew mutiuird, and he
gave up dying for the present to take care
Of them. An old lady in this city, near
her end, got a vexcl about a proposed
change in her will; ordered a coach was
driven twenty miles to the l.ouse OF a rela.
tive, and lived for four years longer. Cot
ton Mathcr tells some good stories which he
picked up in h's experience, or out of his
books, showing The unstable equilibrium Of
prognos S. Simon S,oi.c WAS short in nine
places, and As lie lay for dead the Indians
madcstwo backs with a hachct TO cut his
head of. lie got well, however, and was
Il iu>ty trlwow in Cotton Ma,heI's time
Jahcz MuSgrave waS sho, with IL bullet that
"eut III his car and cane out OF his eye on
the other SIDE. a couple Of bullets went
through his body also. Jabez got we'll,
howcv~r, and lived n.any years. Per con-
ira, Gtl. Rossi;er, cracking plum stone
with his teeth, broke IL tooth, and lost her
l;fc. We have seen physicians dying, like
Spiggelus, from scratch; and man who
had crow bar shot through his head is
alive and well. These extreme eases are
warnings. But you can never be too eau
,ious in your proguosis, in the view Of great
uncertainty Of the course of any disease not
long watched, and Tie many unexpected
turns il may take
A STRONG DRISK.-A politician says
lie once Partook Of a beverage SO strong,
lEatrhc could not tell whether it was bran
: or a lorch!ight procession that WAS 60
uO"Q IFS throat.
| In the~window Of show il an obscure
part "f London is this announcement -
Goods removed, messages taken, carpets
beaten, and poetry com. osed on any sub
ject.'
My dear DOCTOR said lady, L suffer a
great deal with my eyes BE patient,
ruatism,' he replied, "you would probably
suffer great deal more without them
1T seems, observed on: dandy to another
at party, that they give no supper to-
night To which the other replied. Then
stop my expenses and coolly took off hi,
new pair Of gloves.
Some patent curiosity hunter has found
ehat the number Of grains in bushel o
wheat weighing sixty pounds, is upward O
six hundred and thir'Ynine thousand.