Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-02

HopeIess OOScuTliN. we IOOk en- ana
marvel at the progress being made in
the medical science and wonder if the
time is not near when the grave will be
defrauded of its every victim. One of
the most sublime Illustrations of the
strides that the medical profession is
making in the march of progress that
has ever occurred in the present cen
tufy, happened here last Thursday.
+. Wall, a specialist OF this city, was
working for one of our citizens. The
day was exceedingly hot and the men
with whom MIR. Wall was working no
ticed that he was becoming pale. They
remarked that it was evident that be
was about to be sun-struck and that he
was fast approaching a critical condi-
ton. He said that he had experienced
two sun-strokes already and guessed he
was going to have another. They kept
on with their work, however, until one
of the men exclaimed: LOOK, he is
turning red in the face With pres
enee of mind that bordered on the mir
aculous, they took him up tenderly and
carried him out to where a pump stood
and laid him down under it, and made
him lie still while they pumped water
on HIM until it seemed that he was al
most petrifed. Then one of them said,
For Heavens sake! run for Dir. Me-
Nett. One of them ran for the Doctor
and he came on the double-quick. He
watched the process Of petrilication for
/ few moments in silence. He said not
a word, but ali the time beads of pers-
piration drops stood out on his noble
/ brow. Soon be told them to disconin-
ne The pumpaphone, while he exam
med the authorities on the case He
took cursory glance through Sedwick
on Damages, Kent's Commentaries on
/ Drowning, Kendall on Spavins and
Bergh on Cruelty to Animals He then
/ laid aside his books, re-adiusted his eye
glass and proceeded to examine the
most interested party in the proceed
! ings The Doctor felt of his tongue and
/ found that it was, in medical language,
all oak tay, and looked at his pulse and
1 discovered it to be in diametrical OPP
/ position to homogeneous inspiration.
! He then scanned the countenance of the
/ patient, and said he would fain inquire
4 the reason of his thusness. The only
answer that the horizontal gentleman
gave to the Doctors direct and pertin-
ent inquiry was long drawn-out sigh
that sounded like the sad moan Of the
hurricane. The Doctor then told him
! that it was not all of life to live, or not
all of death to die. that man never
! had chance like this but once during a
I lifetime and that he must stand up like
little man, and die in manner be-
fitting the occasion. A groan that
1 seemed to proceed from an unexplored
territory warned the physician that the
suspicious time for action had arrived,
and he commanded the men to relegate
! the recumbent subject to some other
spot and then had them apply water to
him in homeopathic doses of one bucket
full one second, then skip one and then
double the dose. This treatment was
assiduously applied until the patient
showed signs of relenting, when it was
discontinued. The Doctor then put
him through u thorough course, and the
patient was soon able to enter into con-
verSation. He said, ''Whew! il vas an
close call and vas glat | come back. :"
When asked to describe the scenery of
the country of which he had obtained a
birds-eye view, he said, .Oh! You gid
oud, it vas worse that Platteville, and
dond you forgit i'd" DR.. McNett has
certainly by his treatment of Mr.. Wall S
case, inserted himself in one of the
most elevated inches of the profession,
and we would not be surprised to hear
of his early appointment as examining
surgeon for Henry Bergh's society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Railroad Company's iron bridge across
the Wisconsin River at this point is now