Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
A STORY OF A CANCER.
How Young New York Belle Suffered
and Died.

From the Neao York World
The anniversaries Of the fall of Rich
mOnd and the death Of Lincoln, connected
with the dying condition of Gen. Grant,
bring up to my mind with renewed vivid
ness the touching history of a very at
tractive young lady who was well known
in New York society at the close of the
war. Having graduated from Bellevue
in the spring of 1SG4,I was invited, about
amonth after that event, to be present at
the operation for the removal of the left
arm of young lady living at NO. 1 1 East
Twenty-ninth street, the only daughter of
a resident practitioner now dead, DR..
John futile. Quite a number Of
young physicians were there, and
they, as well as their seniors, were struck
with the remarkable beauty. both in
face and form, Of the young lady, as well
as her wonderful selfpOssessiOn. She
even wanted to see the instruments that
were TO be used upon her and 20 he told
their uses. The injury had occurred
through the fall of "A saddle horse on which
she was riding while at her country home
at Rye the summer before. The bruise
developed an encephaloid tumor i'm the
arm, and the entire arm was skilftily re-
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Wood. In ten days she was about the
house, singing like a bird, and that sum-
mer enjoyed in apparently perfect health
all the delights Of emancipation from
school life, having just graduated from
Rutgers with high hOnOrs. The following
year-April "a, 1S65-she was married 10
one Of thsyoung surgeons who had been
captiyated by her beauty and her
brains, for she possessed both to an
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for the future she went on her brida
tour 10 Europe, spending tho spring and
early summer on horseback and by coast
ing steamers among the yerv romantic
mountains and seacOasts Of Spain. win
ming her way everywhere by her beauty
and wit. special entertainments being ar
ranged for her both by the courteous Off
GERS at Gibraltar and by the young naval
officers Of an English squadron that
CHANGED TO meet the party az Barcelona,
and everywhere receiving that marked
attention which she seemed born 90 COM
mand. She continued through SwitZer-
land and Germany into Russia and then
back through Germany 10 Paris. there 10
get rousseau and secure a passage
home. And here comes I'm the sad part Of
the story. The steamer had atempostuOus
voyage Of Is days. IA the midst Of a hur-
ricaue the young lady attempted 10 20 on
the upper deck. She fell, crushed her
hip, was confined TO her berth for the last
nine days and was unable even t0 see the
beautiful harbOr of the city she loved NO
welE Arriving Jan. /, 1866. The very day
that she had looked forward 20 when she
would be receiving the congratulations Of
her friends, she was taken in an ambu-
lance to the house Of Dr. James Il. Wood,
where a consultation was held Another
encephaloid was found to have developed
sell an~ all hope was abandoned. Yet
such was her vitality and cheerful
courage amid untold agony that
she - not only lived for six
months, but buoyed mp the rest Of
the family with her inspiring words and
manner. This Is the history Of one OF the
many forms Of cancer, and shows how iu-
eidlous ls their progress and how fatal In