Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-22
Byron Should Have Been Living Now.

Not many yearsago unfortunate men
! could be seen quite frequently with
one or both feet turned tho wrong way
and any person of fine taste can imag-
inc the effect that such misfortune
would have upon the mind. Neither
money nor title could overcome the
difficulty, nor even when coupled with
genius, as in the case of Lord Byron,
did it make any difference. Driven to
desperation by his misfortune the
author of Childe Harolde became a
misanthropist and fell into the delus-
ion that everybody, even the mother
who bore him, ridiculed his malforma-
ton. AS he gazed upon others, young
men like himself, floating about in the
giddy waltz he looked upon his mis-
shappen foot and went wild with rage,
cursing the dance, the Germans who
invented it, and the English who in
dulged in it.
Had Byron lived IN these days he
might have been spared his chagrin
ana dancing might have been added to
his many other follics. Skill in sur
gerry is overcoming almost every defect
of nature and the time has now come
when skillful surgeons can, provided
they have healthy constitution to
work on, overcome artitically, with the
assistance which nature freely gives,
almost any abnormal condition which
may exist. Proof of this has been
shown this week in our own quiet Will
age. Some distance north of here
man named George Ellison had Il six
year-old boy with club foot. Hearing
that Doctor Ney, of Port Huron, was
in the village he came and saw him and
made arrangements to have him oper-
ate on it, and last Tuesday morning
with DR.. Wight to assist, the foot was
operated on. The Doctor tells us that
if taken when the child is from two to
six months of age, there is no difficulty
in the operation, but if left as i'll this
case five or six years the bones become
hardened and set, and the trouble is
far greater to secure perfect result.
In this case it was found necessary to
cut from the instep bones wedge
shaped piece in order to allow the foot
to assume q normal position.
The operation was successfully and
perfectly performed and the boy is
doing nicely. In short time he will
be able to walk about rs others do and
when he reaches the years of manhood
he will be able to appreciate the bless
ings which the science OF surgery at
fords as those who never needed its aid
can not do.
The practice of surgery seems to have
peculiar charms for the Doctor and in
order to have a broad and unlimited
field for it, he has formed co-partner-
ship with a very prominent physician
of Detroit who is enjoying a large
practice. They have secured large
commodious building at the corner of
Bagley avenue and Clifford street and
the first of May next, will open an Elec-
tro Medical and Surgical Institute fitted
out with Electro Thermal baths and all
the latest improvements for practice of
medicine and surgery. A full corps of
nurses and attendants will be employ
ed as all minor operations will be per-
formed there, while those attended
with great danger will be operated on
by Doctor Ney at Grace Hospital, with
which arrangements have been made.
While the Doctor regrets moving away
from friends here, and from the lucra-
tive practise he has already established
in Port Huron, he realizes that by
going to Detroit an ample field for sur
gerry will be opened to him.