The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-16
OUR STORY TELLER.
A REsURRECTIONIST'S NOTE.
BOOK.
iChieago Tribune.1

fChicago Tribune.l
Having been appointed Demonstration of
Anatomy to the Chicago Medical College
soon after receiving his degree of Medicine
Doctor, the principal incidents narrated in
the following came under the observation,
or otherwise to the knowledge, of the writer
while occupying that position. To the sub
stantial correctness of the narrative he is
willing TO voueb, although, for obvious rea.
sons, he had dislocated names and dates to
some extent. Other witnesses to its literal
ness might also readily be found among the
survivors OF those whose names are given
Aside from this merit, however, it has
neither lesson, moral, argument, nor other
justification for its publication, save such as
may be pleaded for the interest which at
taches to the records of the res gestc temporiS
dcti-the traditions of the deeds and ex-
ploits OF an earlier day. The abrupt de-
nouement is due to the somewhat sudden
and unlooked-for participation Of the writer
in the historic, but hardly more intensely
dramatic, scenes of the war of the great re.
bellion.-REP.l FF
They we're in a quandary-the mem
bers Of the Faculty of the Medical De-
partment of Lind University, as the
Chicago Medical College was originally
styled. -.
Decidedly in quandary.
During the lecture session, then
drawing to a close, the college had
been badly scooped " by its rival,
"Old Rush"
Many Of the members of the Faculty
had held chairs in the Rush, and were
desirous of preserving amicable relations
with the senior institution. In their
innocence and total want of guile they
had "given themselves away" in the
drgot OF the classroom, on many points; I;
but in no way so completely aud dis
astrously as on the subject of a supply
Of material for the dissectiDg-room. :,
In those carly DAYS, and before "resur-
rectionizing "had become one of the fine
arts, twas no easy task to keep the busy
scalpels of two or three hundred students
supplied with subjects, even without
competition. But these difficulties were
immensely increased when q rival in.
stitutiin entered the market, and bid
for the services of the only purveyor
OF "long pig" then engaged in the
Daniel Brainard-" the Count as he
was famili ,rly called-was then the ia
nous Professor of Surgery and President
Of the Rush Faculty; and Edwin
of Demonstrators Of Anatomy. Just how
il was brought about will probably
never be known, but convention wal
eventually made between the riva
Demonstrators, whereby it was agreed
that the services of the aforesaid pur
veyor were to inure to the benefit of tn,
two colleges on alternate nights tn,
Rush reaping the fruits of his noctur
nal toll on one night, and the Lind ol
the next. @Fe
The Arcadian simplicity of this al
rangement was marred, however, 500
after the opening of the session, by
series OF the most unioward interruL
tions, and which by some strange coli
cidence, always occurred on the night
llotted to Lind.
Old Hans, the resurrectionist, n
ported time after time, the most hal
raising stories Of his narrow escape
from capture, as his excuse for faiiin
bo keep the tables of Lind's dissectine
rooms duly set forth with the funeres
meats necessary to safe the students al
petites. Finally, stung to action by tn
comments of his colleagues and by th
rapidly-waning class, whose desertin
members found abundant aliment &
Rush, the Lind Demonstration insiste
on accompanying Hans upon one of b
midnight forays IN propria persona. ST
Whether the charge of bird-sho
laboriously picked next day out of tf
skin and superficial fascia covering IL
gluteal muscles of the unfortunate an
adventuresome Demonstration by Il
Lind Professor of Surgery, DIR. Edmun
Andrews, was therein deposited by
Rush student, masquerading in IL
guise OF watcher" and whether sue
phlebotomy was countenanced or su
gested by the Faculty of Rush, a
questions which furnished theses f,
very animated discussions among Il
handful of embryo medicuses who sti
gathered around the sparse-seu boards
Lind's dissecting-room.
Certain il is, however, that the exhit
tion of this precipitate Of lead, and Il
subsequent three weeks experience
the unlucky Demonstration (which,
the way, was the reverse of ascetic
furnished the Faculty with what
deemed fundamental reasons for decla
ing his seat vacant, conclusion
which he-prone q la verst, e-was, pt
force, after the extraction OF the renal
ing pellets, compelled to yield paint
assent. ..-
The witty, but rather Rabelaisia
verses generally attributed To the reat
and rufous Professor of Theory al
Practice in Rush, and sung with gre
gusto by the various gangs" or " set
In the dissecting-room of that instit
ton TO ghastly accompaniment
devils tattoos, beaten with old femu
and ossd hunleri, probably live y
among the traditions of the college; 3
the refrain or chorus only is remember
by this veracious chronicler:
Ubi est ille d monstratorf
Dsinds terHtum est alb omnibus
Cum each nnatione
Uduitnte
Trepidante
Strepetante-
NON EsT IsvENTuel
A pronounced suggestion of t
Opium Eater in the above-see his par
"On Murder, Considered as One of
Fine Arts lis probably the cause
the retention in the writer mind OF Il
chorus, which may be freely render
thus:
Where, o wnere ia the Demonsrator7 tbt..l
lie drove of In his doctors coupe
Gone 10 get an air-cushion
As before remarked, the members
the Faculty of Lind, though assembl
in the green-room, were decidedly il
brown study. Attempts at wit fell fl