Telegram-herald., 1889-11-14

hurt2' and How does 10 feel 20 be
shOtP / always suit these fellows by
saying that being shot is delightful
sensation, and advise them % try 10 on
their heads. A YANKEE cavalryman
did for ne with his carbine, while ] was
trying % DO FOR him ~ith my Colt But
d. yOu know. when my leg gave way
and I fell. imagined rnat a horse.
struggling near By, had kicked me.
The sensation Was like the blow OF a
club and lad In 10 no sting of acute
pain. How was IL with the rest Of
you?"
This was the testimony OF all. The
pain az the instant OF being struck was
stunning rather than severe, and in
every case this vas followed by nausea
and thris>- II was leading my company
against a Confederate battery at Jones'
bOro when | was HIT" said Captain
Ferguson. and for An instan. felt as
II one OF the men behind me had caught
me by the arm and lerked me violently
back. walked back half mile 20 the
field hospital, the pain and my weak
ness increasing with every step. My
coat was cut OF. chloroform was admin
istered, and when | recovered conscious
ness, my arm was on the ground and
the doctors were dressing the stump
Bot DO you know from that day 10 this
particularly when l think aboutit, can
feel the hilt of my sword clutched in
the hand that is gone"
Yes, that sensation OF still having
the limb on has never left me-" said
Major Detmold And here IS q curious
thing Az the time | lost my leg there
was heating blister on the instep that
itched great deal we'll, for a year
after the amputation. I'd wake up at
night with that intense itching and I'd
find myself scratching the bed where
my foot ought 70 be-"
Il can fully understand that" said
Mr.. Godfrey. 1T is now eight years
since lost my foot in a railroad acci-
dent, and from shat day 10 this l have
always felt as If the missing member
were on, but in the condition known as
asleep, and always with the prickling
sensation which accompanies the return
OF circulation TO a sleepy part. | can't
explain it"
But can explain II and on scientific
principles, too" On being requested
to enlighten us. the Major continued.
Now, here are four OF US, all wanting
limb. In every case the amputation
was after we had reached adult age, so
that for twent-one years or more-and
tAcSo INC years Hutu liu IMPRESSIONS are
keenest-the brain had been receiving,
through the regular nerves, sensations
from the hand or foot. Well. suddenly
an amputation takes place, the nerves
are severed, and great pain follows, but
the brain associates that pain not with
the stump but with the former ends or
examinations Of the nerves in foot or
hand. To illustrate. A telegraph op-
orator has been accustomed for years to
receive certain communications over a
wire the other end OF which he knows
20 be twenty miles away. Let us sup
pose that wire cut and the messages
sent from a point ten miles of. don I
you see the receiving operator. If not
otherwise informed, will not be able TO
tell the difference. | am always troubled
with pain at the end OF the stump and
] guess every man with an smputatiOn
suffers the same way. As | GET older
mymind loses the sensations OF the lost
leg and begins more and more 20 assign
the pain 20 the right place; but here is
Acurious fact. In my dreams, | always
have both legs on again