Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-11-13
HOSPITAL HORRORS.
STORIES or SURGICAL RECKLESS
NESS AS TOLD IN a BOOK.

what an obecry 'ng Engiishman says co"-
corning the Terrible Things Ihst ARC
n.ne I'm The Teaching Hospitals OF Lon
dcp-Uenrtlcss Experimenting.
At second and third hand we may imagine
on, author to have gathered tho account ne
rives us of the terrible things that are aohe
in the teaching hospitals. Here are Two Oh
- ;,lnstrations of the treatment OF mori-
ii ,,atients A nurse calls house sur
geOn -, So.
"'Sister says she thinks he is dying iasp,
and are you going to operator uoiis "
operatel Rather think | was. DON'T you
know. nurse, this is my first capital opera
tions Do you think | am gong 10 lose Une
chancer Then, sir, sister told me to ask you
if | had better let the chaplain know. 'ChaP-
lain be hangedr he cried. Certainly not! IL
would only depress the poor devil. No, mol
Plenty of brandy Keep him upl Cheer
him all You can; tell him it is only trifiing,
every day sort Of affair, and he will he well
in n iiffy. You may send for his wife 'Oh,
sir She has been waiting about the hospital
all day. AN right, them Now, gentlemen,
to business. You shall see me do something
pretty The bell rang for the operation 70
assemble the students, some OF whom said NJ
was a beastly shame to torture poor wretch
who hadn't chance of getting over it. AN,
you won't talk like that when you are house
surgeon H. s. they always termed it, your
self. You will be glad to operate on your
father, if you can't get anybody else. be-
sides, what are hospitals for, if not to qualify
dDn't
learn all we can from the.l, why don't they
stay at home and dies The parish doctor
won't disturb their latter moments with OPP
erations.' '"
And again:
"Here is middle aged woman, evidently
having but short time to live, yet this
afternoon Dr. Wilson says his chief proposes
to perform upon her a capital operation.
He has not the least hope it can save her Sfe,
but the chance of performing such an opera
ton arises but seldom, and it is but just and
kind to the house surgeon, who wants all the
practical work he can get, to let him assist.
So the woman and her friends are duly
pressed to consent that this-'the only means
of saving her life'-shall forthwith be done.
To this end all the nurses are instructed to
urge her. At last she submits She will be
carried to the operating theatre, and this
chance of instruction will fall to DR.. Wilson's
hands: for as soon as the chloroform has
effected its work he will take the place of the
chief and do his first strangulated hernia 7"
Among the cases Of heartless experiment.
ing we have the following:
Would you like to do a gastrotomyl
You ought to do one or two before you leave;
its very pretty operation. l never knew q
case survive more than week, but there's
nothing like trying and if you pick out case
that must die any wav you are welcome to
use any of my cases that we can get to con-
sent, and with Sister Agnes consent-sister
is capital at getting consent in anything,
aren't you, sster.-it can generally be man
aged 81 = I wish to investigate said
one of his dressers, the presence of htbic
acid in the blood of rheumatic patients. MAY
/ blister one or two of your patients. Mr..
Grower oh, certainly said the oblging
Psychologist; 'only you must take precau-
tions to let he patient imagine Won are doing