Smyrna times., 1866-06-06

IT MISTAKES OF PHYSICIANS. oliver Wendell
Tonnes ~ & (physlcan philosopher and poet) gives
Inc following account Of some mistakes which
nave been made in medicine:
r. sooner or later everybody is tripped up in
IESrlllns EnL1s diagnosis saw Velpau the great
fIehch surgeon, tie one of the carotid arteries
lHr ~ supposed ancurlSm-which was only lit
ne m harmless tumor--and he killed his patient.
case he boldly declared an abscess while ntb-
erS thought it an aneurism. He thrust Ian
cet INTO 1t, and proved himself in the right
Hoon alter, ne made similar diagnosis He
thrust IN his lancet as before, and out pushcd
the patient blood, and his life with if rho
next morning Mr.. DcaSe was found dead and
floating in his blood. lie had divided tba
telnoral artery. | have doomed neonlc and
seen others doom them, over and over again
on the strength Of physical signs, and thew
nave nave HVed In the most cOntumacious and scien
tlncal!y unJustltlable manner and some are Ev
my SUN. see two men in the street very Of
tcn' who We're both as good as dead in the
opihl0n OF all who saw them in their extremi-
~ Ieople VIII insist upon living, sometimes.
riough 5ir lhahliestly morlbund. In DIR. Elders
NE OF Name you will find story OF this sort
told by Dr. Kane himself The captain Of y
snip was dying of scurvy, but the crew muti-
ned. and he gave up dying for the present 70
take care OF them. An old lady, near her end.
got little YeXed about proposed change in
heT VIII ordered coach was driven twenty
miles 70 the house OF a relative and lived four
years longer. Cotton Mather tells some good
stories which he picked up in his experience
or out OF his books, showing the unstable emil
bnum OF prognosis. Simon Stone was shot in
nine places, and as he lay for dead the Indians
made two two hacks with hatchet to cut his head
on; o. lie got well, however, and was lusty
lcllo" III cotton Mather's time. Jabez Mus
grave was shot with bullet that went in his
ear ana came out OF the eye on the other side.
\ couple of bullets went through his hoJ,
alSo' Jabez got we'll, however, and lived many
years.
Fer Contra, Colonel Rossiter, cracking =
plum-Ston with his teeth, broke molar and
10, lost MS life We have seen physicians diving.
IKE oplgeliuS, from a scratch : and man who
hau croWbar shot through his head alive and
well 1heSe extreme cases are warnings. But
YOU can never be too cautious in your progno-
slS, III view OF the great uncertainty of the
course OF any disease not long watched, and
'he many unexpected turns it may take"
NAsBN.-Petroleum V. Nasty gets off the
following. lie says the conversation occurred
between himself and an old dalkay whilst he
was addressing the " DimocrSy' in Kintucky
Says the darkey, interrupting Nasty:
We'll! Mas.r" sed the old imbecile, "is
a beast Ny venerable friend there amt
Is my old woman old beastess, too?"
Individually" replied |.
And my children, is they little beats and
beaStesses? Onquestionably. .
- Ilnu n eli,
IS he?' My friend, sed |, that question
Hold on, y sed he, swat wanted TO ret
at is dis:-dare' heap NV yeler tellers in dis
section, whose ladders must hev bin white men,
and c2 der mudderS wuz all beaStrSSes. | want
to know whcdder dar amt 10 law in Kintuck
agin =
Put him out!' Kill the black deyilr'
shouted large majority Nv them who he'd bin
the heviest slave owners under the GOOD old
patriarkle system, and they went for the old
reprobate. At this pint ofhccruy the Freed
men Burow, who We hednt observed. riz.
and Dustin with laughter, remarked that his
venerable friend sho0d have a chance to be
heered We respeck that Burow, pertikelerly
ez the officers generally have a hundred or two
bayonets within reach, and chokin our wrath,
permitted ourselves to be further insulted bv
the cussed nlgger, who, GRIMM from ear to
ear, riz and proceeded
My, white friends, sed he, "dar pear to
De an objection to my reference to de subieck
Nv dis mlXln with beasts so | wont press de
matter. But ask 700 did Noer hev three sons2''
Tie did, sed |: Berry good Wuz dey all
brudderSY' Wv course ~
he officer OF the Freedman Burow laft vo-
clterouSly and so did dozen or two solierS in
the crowd likewise, and the awience skunk out
without adJournln the meetn, one NV EN- re-
mark!n audlbIy that he had noticed one thing.
thaC IpmocrlSy was extremely weak whenever
1t undertook to defend itself with facks or rev.
elashun. For his part, he d done with argv-
ment lie wanted niggers because he Good
wallop EN-, and make EN- do his work without
paying EN-, which he couldn't do with white
men
lett the meetin house convinSt that the
South, who worked the niggers, leavin us North
1rn DlmOkratS to defend the system, he'd the
best end Of the bargin
y widow of Joe Smith, the great Mormon
eader-which widow, whether fourth or forti-
eth is not stated-still lives quietly in Nauvoo,
Illinois. She is represented as stubbornly ia
'lturn, and devout believer in the Mormon
aith. She is now sixty-two years of age, and
las been remarked.
An incurable old bachelor, and who seeming
y rejoices in his infrmity, describes marriage
IS "a female despotism, tempered by pud-
lings.
The late Doctor Seymour was asked ;f ha
onsidered tight lacing bad for consumption?
Not at all; it is what it lives on" A wise
nd witty reply.
A lady was asked, the other day, why she
hose to live single life She naireiy repIi-
| :" Because | am not able to support n
usband.
A wag says ofa woman: "To her yirtue wa
e give love; to her beauty admiration: and
her hoops, the whole pavement. y
A fashionable party is now called ''daush.
r-cultural show"
A musical mouse has been captured at Mead
lle' Pennsylvania. CHow was it wound up?)
If the ladies want nice Dress Silks, either
aeS %.t, or t,ancy' they will have to go to Baggs