The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-25
the refrain or chorus only is remembered
by this veracious chronicler;

Opium Eater in the above--see his paper
"On Murder, Considered as One of the
Fine Arts us probably the cause of
the retention in the writer's mind Of this
chorus, which may be freely rendered
thus:
Where, o where is the Denonstrator9 (bis.)
He drove off IN his doctors coupe
Gone TO get an air-cushioni
As before remarked, the members of
the Faculty of Lind, though assembled
in the green-room, were decidedly in a
brown study. Attempts at wit fell fat.
No responsive smile met the casual re-
mark that this want of subjects made
the present subject grave affair. The
failure to raise other peoples bodies had
manifestly depressing effect on their
own spirits. in short, the inaugural eff
fort at establishing new era in medical
education, through system of graded
nstruction-which was the raisen d'etre
of the Lind-seemed about to abort at
the very inception of CESSATION.
1t was very obvious that prompt meas
ures, such as would effectually prevent
repetition of the seasons disappoint-
ment, must be at once resorted to. A
promising young graduate in the Office
of DIR. n. S. Davis was finally selected
to fill the vacant Demonstratorshiv;
and, on his acceptance, he was instructed
that the prime requisite of his office was
an abundant supply of material for the
next session.
He was no novice, as it subsequently
TRANSFERRED. One of the amateur attem pts,
in company with Professor Freer-at the
time filling the chair of Anatomy in
Rush-had shown him possessed of the
requisite pluck, GOODNESS and ingenuity.
In session of unusual dearth, caused
by the illness of the regular purvey or,
it had become necessary that the Pro
fessor should take the field himself and
our hero, who was then a student in
Freer's Office, found himself and his pre-
ceptor one dark night on the wrong side
of the fence of the old City Cemetery,
on the North Side, in the section known
as Potter's field"
The stiff" had been successfully ex-
humed and deposited in the shrubbery
near the fence, the grave restored to its
appearance, and the tools deposited in
the chaise, when a couple of policemen
and the keeper of the cemetery were
heard approaching. Freer's horse was
a good stopper, and thirty minutes after
saw the couple in the old st. Charles
Saloon, enjoying hot whisky punch and
stewed oysters under the kindly minis
tration of Mat" Conley.
About three o'clock in the morning,
after careful reconnaissance, they Sc
cured their booty, which was set bolt
upright between them on the seat of the
chaise, and hastily driven to the col
lege, where it was deposited at the bot
tom Of the shaft leading to the dissect-
ing-room.
About noon the Doctor and his as
sistant repaired to the college for the
purpose of injecting the cadaver. To
their horror and dismay, when it
was tumbled out of the sack it was
found to be that of a case of continent
smallpox
Those among the older readers of the
Tribune who can recall the minor sensa-
lions of the period about 1886 may
remember the mysterious solicitude of
certain physicians on the subject of vac
cination-how every one was urged
to submit to the operation, and how, al
though smallpox was by no means pre-
terest manifested in the disease.
The explanation may be found in the
above incident.
DR.. Freer and his student sported new
wardrobes; the Doctors chaise was sent
off into the country, no one knew
whittier; and Freer and Herrick and
Blaney and johnson ct al. went about
yaccinating right and left, gratuitously.
To dispose of the corpus deficit was the
most embarrassing matter But it was
quickly solved by Dave, the student,
who packed it in whisky barrel and
coached the package in the middle of an
orchard at Jefferson, belonging to Mr..
John Gray, afterward Sheriff of Cook
County. If John has hitherto been I'M
able to account for the abundant fruit
age of a certain group of apple trees, of
the Esopus Spitzenberg variety, in his
orchard, this recital may help him to
clear up the matter.
So Dave-now DIR. David E-was the
new Demonstration, and he set himself
at once to survey of the situation. 1t
was clear that no further dependence
could be placed on old Hans. From
eighty to one hundred new subjects
would be necessary for the next session,
and it was of vital importance to the
success of the new College that there
be no further illustration of the
woodchuck story" in the history of
Lind.
Revolving the matter in his mind, the
young Esculapius next morning took
his accustomed way to the wards in the
Rebel Hospital at Camp Douglass, then
pretty thickly occupied by the sick and
disabled among the Fort Donelson
prisoners.
He had been made an Acting Assist
ant Surgeon at the camp 50 recently
that, hitherto, the freshness and interest
of the duties had not worn of. But to-
day he was preoccupied; and the ward
masters, as they attended him from cot
to cot, might have excusably supposed,
in their ignorance of medical terms, that
an epidemic of constipation had struck
his pat ents, judging from the fire.
quency with which he perfunctorily
added the single word perge to his
clinical record.
AT last his rounds were completed,
and with few absent-minded direc-
tions to the hospital steward and
apothecary, which those functionaries
judiciously ignored, he was about leav-
ing for the city again, when an Orderly
delivered a message from DIR. Winer,
the senior Surgeon of the Camp, who re-
quested his attendance at the dead
house, to perform a post-mortem on a re-