Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09
SIGNoRA DAL GIN.

Signora Dial Gin was born in Northern
Italy in 1919. Her mother was a bone
setter OF some repute among the peasantry,
and early gave her daughter instruction in
her art From the fact that when nine
properly, and also performed many other
operations successfully, under her mothers
direction, we may conclude that she was
admitted to study in The hospital Of An
zano, and there she acquired the wonderful
dehcacy of touch which she possesses.
Continuing to practice, it was not long be,
fore she aroused the ire of the doctors
by saving leg which they said
should be amputated, and was brought
into Court charged with not hav-
ing q license. She made her own de.
Tense, and the man whose limb had been
saved appeared as her advocate. She was
pardoned, but was ordered not to practice
any more. She then turned her attention to
replacing dislocated thigh bones, one of the
most difficult and painful operations in sur
gerry, said by Nelaton to present great, If
not insurmountable difficulties after lapse
of more than forty days. She soon succeeded
in performing the operation without pain to
the patient and this even in luxations of
twenty seven years, and for all immediate
periods. Considering the number and diff
Guilty of the cases-many OF them congenital
usually those which have been pronounced
hopeless by eminent American anu European
surgeons, the results are truly wonderful.
She said to be uniformly successfulinwha
ever she undertakes but, unfortunately, she
is obliged to turn many applicants away
particularly when tendons have been cut, or
surgical operations performed. In all cases
her verdict is rendered Immediately after
examination, which is free. As an exam
nation of her skill we may cite the fact
that in Trieste she performed few years
since 400 operations successfully in twenty
days, many of them in the presence of phy-
sicians whose confidence and good will she
has gained, as indicated by the diploma
which she now holds from the Italian Gov
eminent authorizing her to practice. A
daughter of General Woodford, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, was recently benefited so
greatly that Mrs. Woodford, to testify her
gratitude, induced Signora Dial Gin to come
to America to help those who might be
unable to go to Italy for treatment, and,
although she has been here but short
time, she has effected some remarkable
curesr.-[ Letter to the Boston Herald.
CREosoTED TIMBER-In paper recently
read before the Engineers Club of Phila-
delphla, ON the preservation of timber, Mr..
Bilin, after abiding to the very general
indifference manifested ON this subject by
the majority of American roadmasters, was
of the opinion that the Ignorance of this
class of officials concerning the beneficial
effects to be derived from the use of such
preservatives was responsible for the fact
that more decided steps had not been taken
in this country toward economizing our
timber supply, by prolonging its life in
service He estimated that for the one
item OF railroad ties alone, no less than
1000, 600 of acres of timber are annually
consumed. He cited, in support of the
value of properly-applied preventative
agents in prolonging the life of timber, IN.
stances of English creosoted ties that had
been use for twenty and twenty-five years,
and that were in as good state OF preser.
walton as when put in the track. Creosoted
piles, driven at Portsmouth, England,
forty-two years ago, he affirmed, We're
found, after that long period of service,
"to be as good above as below water-llne,
and to have outlived sixteen and seventeen
sets of piles cut from the same timber, and
driven In the same work, but which were
not creosoted."