The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-12-16
IDAHO WORLD.
From the Philadelphia Cor. N. Y World.
THE CLINICAL CLASH-MEN AND WoM1N
IT THE DISSECTING TABLE.

ON long narrow table they stretched the
breathing BODY man in the prime OF me-
dressed in the garb off working man. Two
assistants. who seemed rather nervous, STOOD
oneach side the table, Folding each leg ana
arm of the paptating but unconscious man
1'he lower part of the mans limbs were strip
ned, and at his herd stood another assistant
I who held large glass jar OF ether, from when
he .pade plentiful applications by means OF a
= towel to the nOstrlls and mouth OF the SUBJECT;
Ibis was dome at intervals, when the agony OF
-, nDeration caused the subject to recover a
ns W. consciousness. There were couple OF
WIZ tables with pumps, surgical instruments,
g., ives, lancets, bandages, and other ap,
-. used in surgery. Inc professor lilu
OF 'ne ooys in his hand, and was stating TO the
him. sn as he nicked away right merrlly, put
statem great business-like precision, that ne
him GREETED that the ulcer which covered the
mifbiects feet, the result of a terrible MASKING
from the wheels of Il railroad car, was not II
greater one, as it had sluughed great deal.
and was not quite up to the mark for practical
ilustratiOn. AS he talked he hacked away,
and although the man on the table was choktd
off every few minutes with plentiful ether, still
the STRUGGLES of his muscular system were ter
rible 10 look at, and the female students were
nearly all unnerved by the sight. In lew
minutes the hands and wrists OF the learned
nrofassor were smpared with clots of blood,
and the towels with which he wiped himself
every now and then were saturated win the
bloody fluid Still he sawed away al the jag
ged toes and sliced pieces OF liberated ilesh'
which he threw aside, ana the body aud lmDs
of the organized man throbbed up and down
on the pine table like steam engine. Several
nj the Indies were almost ready to faint, and 4
th-lr
handkerrhiets to shut out the bloody show.
One or two scanned the operation, and the
bleeding, mangled feet with critical eye,
through gold-mounted glasses, and halt dozen
sobbed audibly with purely feminine tenderness
rs the toes and heart of the foot were reduced
TO a bleeding ShapcleSS pulp Several OF the
lady students turned their heads away from
the arena and did not look around unt!l The
feet were bound u?.
The female students had brought blank books
with them, as is customary with all students IN
attending a cliniqur, TO make notes "t thr OPP
Grafton. | only saw two women use their
books, they We're So much moved by the man
ged subject But noticed that all the male
students looked in 4 matter OF fact, cAlIous
way, and quite number made c"pI"uS notes
in thei; books. Then the professor TOOK bau-
dages, and while ccturlng all the time, ADJUST
ed the mangled members hy traverse banda
ges, and the operation was finished NE
bleeding man had not been chokcd oil with
ether. and suddenly he erected his head, g"i
up halfway, looked around the eager tears Of
faces, gave howl like wounded animal
and fell back unconscious and then the table
with its subject was moved away and thr pu'
pills were dismissed. The male students
sprang up, left the building; and when they
had left, the thirty seven females with Mrs
DR.. Preston at their head, in shy way got
up, looked around. hung back minute, and
when the coast was clear came out Or thr
Eicht.street entrance lnnklng lk" 4 iiork 81
sheep A dozen Of the students stood around
on the sidewalks 10 see them come ont, Dnt
they behaved in most respectful mannrr Z
the ladies as they did durlns IT," cInt4u"
Not gesture OF disrrsprct or c""trsaP: "as
made during the time OF the Lecture.