The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-22
Tender Treatmeur.-Ths Humanity
or French Physicians and Sur'

or French Physicians and sur.
geous.
Prom "Love IN the Nineteenth Century" 4"
by Miss Preston.
"Ard he fell into "reminiscences OF his
happy life a! Paris IS a medical ste.
dent of nature, mind and genuine enthu.
sasm. They had told him in England
that he would fiud the acknowledged
kings OF physiological and medical SCI
euce, the great French specialists, mere
intellectual machines, eager to increase
their ksovledge at any cost OF animsl
anguish, dealing with cases only, not
with patients, careless of the sacred
humanities Of their profession. And |
found he went on, kindliug, that iu-
suiar dullness aud self-complacency
had never compsssed o nore stupid
misconception. The humanity Of those
grea. French savans is OF a somewhat
too refined and tender type for John
Bull to appreciate. Foila tout! |
came by Gods grace to know come OF
them well, and I found that their un-
tiring researches into the mysteries Of
human life and sutferirg bad made
them, almost TO a man, humble, deli
cate, infinitely mercitul. The claims
on their thought, attention OF the sut-
terer, or the learner, especially if n
stranger, | never once saw slighted, or
otherwise than mrst reverently and
carefully considered.
"'How veil I remember, he cou-
tinued, going one Sunday morning
an autumn day ike this-with TREND
to one OF the principal hospits's. It
was the vacation term al the Medical
School, and there were but few students
or visitors about As we passed into
the hall We heard groans, evidently o.
a child in great pain. The door lead
ing 10 the sick ward Was star, aud az
we approached we heard the voice OF
man talking earnestly with the little
sufferer. There was something very
affecting in the imploring tones of tie
child's voice and tue tender and symps-
thiziGg replies OF tue physician, and it
seemed TO us no breach Of etiquette 10
witness unseen through the crack OF
the half open door the scene that was
passing within. On narrow pallet
near the window lay u fire boy, nine or
ten years old, dying OF cancer, Develop
ing itself between TIE eyes and behind
the nose. Il had not yet shown ltseit
externally, but had destroyed the sish:,
and vas attended by excrucisi'ng eu'-
tering. By his side eat a stately white
haired man, holding with one hand the
two of the little patient, while with the
other he caressingIy y sm9othed his hair.
The child tod the story OF his pam,
"AhI je souffretan:," to which the
old man listened pstientiy, pcomislng
to devise some relief. Then he rose 10
90, but frs. bent over the boy with tears
dropping from his eyes, kissed his fore
head lovingly as mother The whit"
haired man WAS the world renowned
Nelaton-Nelaton, lately summoned 70
attend the fallen Emperor.
Another remniscence OF another
Sunday morning in Paris. cav
brought into the hospital young work.
ing girl whose leg had been crushed by
a heavily loaded omnibus, and go bad
ly as to require instant amprtatlon.
The surgeon on duty was the famous
NJ. Richard. We were asked to sssist
that time. / gave the ara:thctic, and
| remember he charged me TO keep
the poor child as he called her, un-
conscious, not only during the the ope.
ration, but until every trace o! It had |
been removed.
HE intercepted bluuderins atten-
dant who would have brought the tray !
Of instruments within sight before she !
slept; and anything equal 10 his pa
tient soothing Of her pain aud terror,
the delicate care which banisbed al |
that was unnecessarily agila;ing from
the scene, the deliberate aud exquisite |
pity which softened his every look and !
movement, hardly hope to sec again.
That also was man.
"'And il you come to typ:s OF man
hood, continued the actor, by this time
with moisteniag eyes. where, cave in
this tempest-tossed and beaten Franc.
will you look for the fpest, at least 10
our dsy7 Simple, loyal servants OF
science, Of art-nay, and OF faith also.
some Of them-.hey preserve, even 10
Their warfare, an urbani;y which the
rest OF US never attain.