The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-07
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the pest JOINT nave never closery suu,neo
tho soft and elastic feather bed upon
which the clerical anchorite journeys
toward what he hopes is even still bet
ter and moro well disposed world.
The doctor finally saw me. He was
wiping his hands ON napkin and put
ting away bloody crochet hook as
entered. "And Low long have you been
looking over your left shoulder into the
past that way. Mr.. Nyey' he asked.
"For twenty-four years." Ireplied, sit-
ting down on soft, elastic, round object,
which gave me chill as thought how
they had neglected 10 put away the last
eye they had secured.
However, it was small rubber bulb.
used mostly on big squirt, by means Of
which the doctor keeps the eve covered
with moth preparation, judge.
1.-The result Of the old operation" said
the oculist, dropping a. whole lot of
household utensils into q fingerbowl full
OF diluted carbolic acid, els that the
rectus muscle was completely cut off
from the eye, leaving it as smooth and
shiny as the top of your head In twenty
years 1t has grown ON again ct the pos
terror precinct of the eye. The con-
Junctiva has gone back into the cerebel-
lum, and is used for thinking instead of
winking. will have to cut tho muscle
away from the back Of the ball of the
eye, dissect 1t also from the optic nerve,
then with forceps draw the old and
d1lapidated muscle forward and stitch 1t
to the ball Of the eye where it was ut
first"
land do you heat the forceps and use
aredhot needle in sewing on the muscley'
ooh, no; certainly not"
"Then," said l, writing little codicil
with my new photographic pen as soon
as could get it to make a mark, "you
may begin with tho merrymaking."
For two or three hours, during which
the only delight l had was in thinking
that twenty-seven people were in the
parlor awaiting their turn and trying to
read their papers the second time over
with angry eyes, two able surgeons
shipped and tripped and cut the basting
threads OF my eye, pausing now and
then to get breath of air and look Mt n
work on "The Human Eye in Health
and Disease"
Invent back on the 9Th and took my
turn with the rest to have the eye ex-
anined again. 1t looked like Sullivan's,
and was mad. because had got Box
for the theater the night before and was
going to entertain friends ut dinner and
then take them to the theater. After
the doctor had cut the muscle loose, and
was looking about in my mental waste
basket to see where it had Topped to, he
told me incidentally that l must not at
tend the theater for some several days.
SO when went back on the following
day to wait, and other patients saw the
ruddy complexion of my eye, they bega,
to inquire about New Orleans and why
had backed Sullivan if did not want
to be treated that way. said something
severe especially TO patient from Nj
agara Falls who is here to get cataract
removed. and he being Sullivan man.
and discovering that had been for Cor
bett all the way through, not alone be-
cause | favor refinement and n reason
able amount of temperance, but because
believed to the extent of good gold
watch and some rublcs that he would
win, and also because Sullivan had
warned me to shut up or he would shut
mo up, and had therefore failed to en-
dear himself to me, he, the man from
Niagara Falls with cataract and 1878
short mt odds of five to one, made pass
ut me, which parried with my fore.
head and led back to him with holly
wood bracket, which was added to nv
bill by the oculist.
Kindly hands and large fat officer
removed the man and his cataract from
me just rs he had perched himself on
my breastbone and began to prospect
around my well eye with his thumb, in
tending to expose it and thus humiliato
mo by sending me down Broadway in
the daylight with a naked eye.
AS we rode up here from North Caro-
lima was awakened in the night by q
powerful odor which came in at the
open window 1t took me back to "A
summer night on the farm when went
down iii our well to clean it out and
found one of those cats that frequent
the poles so much, and are called polar
cats, think. 1t seems that we had run
over one in the night and ho had taken
the only means at hand at tho timo fo,
letting us know that he had been seri-
ously injured.
The polar cat does not sing, but his re-
marks, ignorant and unlettered us he is,
attract instant and earnest attention.
Whether it is dye to lack of proper at
tention to his Bathing or from decaycd
teeth. he seems to have personal air
about him which makes tho blood
hounds job sinecure.
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