The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-09-18

| CURIOUS PaOT0aRAPaS.
The Alhuu q 0szauss Cases q Bellevue
HesDa1al. New Yssh.
In the Photographic department Of
Bellevue hospital, New York. Is to be
seen . curious exhibit OF Photographic
work, consisting Of collection OF sew.
eral hundred pictures of the most re-
markable cases treated in the hospital,
and additions are made every day. The
value Of these pictures is that they are
strictly true to reality, which cannot
always be said OF paintings or dra wines.
It 10 only the Photographic art than can
give them with exact precision. The
young surgeon or doctor who looks over
and attentively contemplates these
pictures Of disease in IT'D various forms
and stages of development, and Of All
sorts Of surgical operations successfully
or otherwise performed. cannot help
learning a great deal. Even confirmed
old professionals, in looking over this
collection, will find many things novel
and suggestive.
The pictures are kept in an album and
numbered. The numbers correspond
to the entries on the hospital books,
giving the names and particulars, with
brief description of the several cases.
The following are . few examples:
No. 3 il the picture Of a boy, Charles
Otto, eleven years Of age, who wa ad-
mitted to the hospital In October last,
with . tumor in his left jaw. The
tumor grew till It pressed On the
tSachae or windpipe, and finally closed
up the breathing passage, 30 that . hole
bad to be cut in the boys neck In front
and q tube inserted for him 70 breathe
Though. The tumor went on till It In.
VOWED the carotid artery and the
la!nyx. and completely DESTROYED al
articulation. Az . last resort the
surgeons cut open the whole face on a
line With the mouth. The boy was re-
lieved by the operations, and continued
for several months breathing through
the hole in bis neck, but the tumor at
length mastered and killed him.
No. s was most extraordinary case.
Il represents = young man named Tur.
ton, born in the East Indies, who had
been vaccinated with bad virus. Some
time afterWard he became afflicted with
a peculiar disease involving the first
terminal joints Of his arms and legs. At
first, the first finger joints rotted and
dropped Of one BY one, and then the
next joints till OF the hands scarcely
anything was left. Then the toes de-
cayed and dropped of joint BY joint, the
same way, and finally the disease ad-
vanced to one ankle, which It destroyed.
Notwithstanding that his arms were re-
duced to mere stumps, strange to say
he could WELD a razor skillfully enough
to shave his fellow patients, which he
often did. He subsequently died.
No. % shows Maria Colligan, Jr.,
twenty.three years Of age, with . new
nose that looks very becoming. She
had lost her nose by disease, and skin
and muscular tissue were taken from
the forehead and grated on the site Of
the original nasal organ. The parts
grew and knitted together, and the
nose now Is perfectly natural. The
young lady is still living.
No. 10 is . somewhat similar case. II
| is the picture OF Catherine Jones, an
Englishwoman, thirty -four years of age,
whose nose was eaten away till 1t be-
came o mere hole into her face. She ID
now rejoicing in . handsome new nost
provided for her in the same way as In
| the preceding instance.
| No. ~ represents Patrick King
twenty-five years Of age. who was frost
bitten in both his feet while working a
! = miner In Nevada. He came on to thi.
city, where bis feet had TO be amputate(
at the ankles which was done in Belle
we BY what Is known % the Schopa'
method Of amputation. His legs termin
ated then In mere etumpS, but, artificial
| feet were made tor him, and he put OF
his boots and walked out without stisl
or crutch, apparently - well as if b.
were on biz natural feet. And no one
to meet him on the street, would sup
pose that he was otherwise.
No. II is . picture Of Michae
Wheeler. thirty years Of age, who wa
caught in machinery In Newark, an,
had his arm feariully shattered. Tn
arm is shown in . separate picture. Oh
close examination it was found that tn
bone was only fractured, not crushed
but the general opinion was that tn
arm would have to be amputated. Th
man was determined, however, not 4
give up biz arm, and said be woul'
rather die than let it be taken Of. 4
} young surgeon OF Bellevue VOLUNTEERED
the opinion that he could make that arm
all right. He grated skin On It fron
other partsof the body, and sure en0ugl
the ann healed, and Wheeler is nov
living, we'll and hearty, with the full %
of the injured member.
No. 81 10 James Trowbridge, . yoln
man full ofliie and socisbility, who va
skylarking with some ladies. One q
the ladies' had . pin in the arm Of be
dress, against which Trowbridg
rubbed, receiving . slight scratch Q
the lip. The scratch Was Thought noeh
ingof q the time, but 1t developed Int
y cancer, which destroyed the life Of tn
unfortunate man In two years. It
probable that he WAS smoker and thu
The nicotine q poisonous essence Of I'll
; tohaeco go3 into the at tint trivi.
Woand, nd aegravated Il into a obst
nate md finally fatal ooge.
No. $50 il William Stewart, y new
: | boy at the Battery, who one day NV
lump Of something floating In the waite
. He picked Is Up and pat it In his poke
By.and.bye he felt that something W
hurning about him, and on e1aminin
be found that his clothes Wele on tir'
Before he could extipguish the fire h
! right thigh got terribly burned. At u
hospital bib leg were strapped togeti'
Is the knees and Hap Of skin raise'
, bat not wholly detached, from his IL
e thish. was detected over On the bur