The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-03-18
AT THE CLINIC.
Sights Which Sometimes Require a LlttIs
Nerve to Behold.


Nerve to Behold.
Inc hrst operation was one that q certain
young lady will be very thankful for eieh,
teen or twenty years from now. This Young
lady OF the future is at present very sweet
ana pretty baby 6 months old. One of the
senior medical students-a lady-sat before
the class with the baby laughing on her
lap. The baby looked up at her and smiled.
Inc girl patted the little thing on the cheek
and the baby crowed and laughed. DR..
Maclean held the rosy foot Of the child in
bis hand and briefly explained to the stu.
dents the cause and remedy of the trouble
that was apparent to all. The two little
ieet were turned in towards each other till
the toes touched. They were at right an
giles to the natural position, and the trouble
If nremedied-would cause the child to
become hopeless cripple At q signal
itom the Doctor young man poured from
bottle the an@sthetic on towel. This
was spread over ,ao the laughing fase Of the
quickness the lancet entered the baby's
Observation-Disclosures. Not drop of
blood was spilled. The little feet were
bandaged into their correct position, with
q speed and dizziness that were truly won
derful. During this there was not q sound
in the room. The first to break the silence
was the baby, whose tremulous cry of re-
turning consciousness just as the last band
age was sticked showed that she thought
she had been taken q mean advantage of,
just as she wanted to crow and laugh at
the lady who held her. There was nothing
revolving about the operation. DR.. Meclean
had done what Shakespeare thought impos-
sible and had spilled no drop of blood.
When that baby takes its first steps those
chubby feet will be ready to do their part.
girl of IL was next trundled in uncon-
scious. She lay on the wheeled table to
have tumor taken from the side of her
face-a terrible legacy of that dread disease
scarlet fever. The great difficulty in this
case was the almost unavoidable danger of
cutting the facial nerve in which case one
side of the girls face would remain as if
paralyzed. The operation was performed.
The awakening was to be the test. The
| students looked on in breathless suspense.
The Doctor touched the lips of the reyiying
| girl with the point of needle. Finally
The girl gave pitiful wall that carried with
it the suspended dread with which she had
doubtless regarded the trial she was to pass
through when the merciful anasthetic over
came her.
Instantly murmur of appreciation was
heard. The students were quick to catch
the results of the Doctors skill.
She cries ON both sides of her face
| now" said the Doctor But. she will
laugh on both sides of her face afterwards
big man came in with an ugly tumor
on the back of his neck.
They offered him the anasthetic, but he
waved the student aside, jo,ularly saying:
!" Never take anything, thank you swore
off on New Years.
This remark was appreciated by the boys,
and remarks Of plucky,n good grit"
and SO on passed among them. He set his
teeth and stood it like Trojan-not q groan
or cry escaped him. He did not even
vince under the Doctors rapidly-plied LAM
Get. When ii was over he smiled and look
ing up at the sea of faces, said
Good-by, boys. Sec you later"
Then the boys gave him grand round
Of applause for his indomitable courage.
4" cut my ankle with an AK eight years
ago." said the next, rs he hid down his
crutches, and there she is" With that
he stuck out his bare foot and leg, pallid,
withered and apparently useless. When the
man limped back to the room from which
he came, DIR. Maclean announced that he
was going to treat the ankle with the cauter.
This instrument is the white-hot iron that
| became somewhat celebrated from the fact
that Clara Morris, the actress, was benefited
by its use in Paris some years ago. The
item went tho rounds under the heading
1.-THE Terrible Moxa," and benefited Clara
also us frst-rate free advertisement.
When the man next came in he lay un.
conscious on the table. The cauter is
strange instrument, whose working I must
admit do not understand. One man held
bottle, another seemingly compressible
green bulb. These, and the cauter which
the Doctor held in his hand, were connected
by rubber tubes. The bottle contained
naphtha, and by some means IN intense
flame seemed to be directed along the pencil
like cauter, that speedily produced white
heat at the point of the instrument. As the
doctor held it there was kissing sound,
and then with z-z-z-z-z-z the point became
dull red, next bright red, and finally q glow
ing white. With this, as with a pen of fire.
the Doctor wrote on the white ankle of the
unconscious man. Doubtless he wrote
healing" Every touch of the moxa was
followed by black mark and o smell of
burning flesh. Now and then the surgeon
would hold the dulling iron in the air for q
moment till the flame dashed it into white
beat again.