Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02

in the case of Thomas McGinne, oi
No. 26 Desbrosses street, who was
patient at Chambers Street Hospital for
many months, as the result of experiments
with frog skin grating. His case, now.
ever, was not burns, but worse yet, an un-
usually large ulcer on the upper part OF his
left arm and the chances of success were
less than usual in his case Dr. John Van
Rensselaer,, of Chambers Street Hospital,
experimental on the latter case and was
compelled to abandon frog skin and graft
the human skin from the patients limbs to
the ulcer on his arm. Then he achieved
success
Eating Lemons Destroys the Teeth.
DR.. William II. Dwinnelle tells rather
droll story of patient who tried queer
way to prolong her life. The heroine is q Of
middle age and member of New York
society. Dr. Dwinnelle says that about
three wears ago he received letter from
the lady postmarked Nice. She had been
travelling on the continent and had made
the discovery that her teeth were decaytng
very rapidly and she became alarmed She
gave an active description. of the condition
of her molars and requested advice on their
treatment A few months previous the
doctor had examined her teeth here, that Is
before she went abroad, and put them in
perfect condition. Therefore he was unable
to comprehend the cause of their condition
after so short lapse of time. He advised
her to return Immediately and his patient
circle and came at once to this city.
An examination only added to the doctors
bewilderment The teeth appeared to be
rapidly wasting away. There were deep
ridges across them, such as might be caused
by some powerful acid. He asked her II
she had not been taking something con.
tanning acid She denied that she had al
first, but when the doctor persisted that
nothing else could possibly have put hel
teeth in such condition OF decay, she
said: 81 believe-lemons are sort O. acid,
are they not?"
The doctor was sitting in his Office chair,
and as he heard this he staggered to his
feet, saying:
swell, 1 should say they are. Have you
been eating many of them?"
"Oh, yes" was her reply, "quite few.
You see, met a woman at Nice who told
me that if ate lemon every night before
retiring I would live forever, and I thought
would like to try it, although you know
didn't believe in it much"
'Then it is no wonder that your teeth are
in their present condition. How did you
eat the lemons? Your teeth look as if you
had held the juice in your mouth"
"No; I was in the habit of cutting 9
lemon in half and placing it between my
lips and teeth so as to squeeze the juice out.
Then 1 allowed it to remain there during
the entire night"
Three Inches OF Steel in His Head.
An emergency case brought into Bellevue
Hospital during the past week which Ii
now causing considerable interest In med
ical circles is q man who was wounded il
the skull with knife. the point of which
was broken off in the brain. At frs. the
surgeons questioned how to treat the pa
tient, who gave his name as George Hajdu
and said he was an Austrian. It was the
opinion of all that to remove the piece o,
steel would cause death, and yet it had to
be removed soon. Drs Cushing and Dorsey
were in charge when he was brought
in unconscious. However, he did
not remain SO after the admins
tration of few proper medicines
His story was that on Sunday night, it be-
ing very hot, he had gone into the cool eel
lar at his boarding place to smoke, when
two men followed and tried to murder him
When he had got this far with the story
he lapsed into Inconsistencies and was re-
moved to ward No. IL, where an operation
was performed.
The doctors were afraid to remove the
piece of knife blade before thoroughly con
fdent what should be done for the patient
as he would die soon after they removed it
That night an operation followed, and tn,
piece of knife blade was then withdrawn
The surgeon was surprised to find that II
measured about three inches in length. The
man had lived two days and this was 9
mystery to them all. He survived the
operation and is still alive. but very weak
His life is uncertain.