Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-25
BILL HAS AN EYE.
he Has IL Operated on With
Indifferent Success.
ne TELLS US ALL ABOUT IT
Tksn After Long TeaEs Of Waiting, Win
Poor Eyes5xht. Hz Tres an Esnl-
neut Ocuissrs Skil.


NV ICaK CITY september. lcJ1.
A celebrated writer on Opthalmic
Iaatters .says. We point with much
pride tofhe wonderful mechanism Of the
eye and its great perssction and yet II
We were " buya p=Lr u opera glasses
that sves1n1 I,saxer perfection than tho
average pair Of eyes We would return
them 10 the n1erchanton the following
day." fhs Is largely dus 70 the fact
thai they are unlike. and this trouble
may he tEe result OF bad usage or ia
heEitance, 70 cay nothing II bad and IN
skilissd operations. accidents, III health,
etc
Fwentysfosr wears ago, when l was a
lad. il was discovered one day by close
sEuc.sufs - siEe human eye that had u
case n very mild strabismus. IL was
not 80 severn * 10 worry me, bat kind
friends, who should have known better,
decided CO torn me over % a physician
and surgeon The man selected was one
OF those silent, .nlOrose. brutal kind. who
sly little. rela4in dlgnined through life
aad die leaving tie impression that they
had IA enormous reserve power of
thOUght which they never used. have
often wished that had been gifted that
way. for there Is 10 chance 10 criticise a
severe. man who never says anything.
He lives and dies a great man in the
eyes OF the hOi pOllOi, for they never
know when he might possibly say some
thing.
THIS doctor cut of legs and arms with
great rapidity. tie had been IN the war
OF 1872, or some such war. and had done
good deal toward bringing peace about,
for both friend and foe decided that he
was worse than arson. treason, rapine
and death, SO the war closed.
was handed over to him just as chill
dren used 10 be fed 10 the erocodiles OF
the Asiatic countries. We wanted his
good viii. even il IL cost lobe Of the
liver OF tho oldest child or an eye or an
ear 10 make him feel pleasant.
The reader has doubtless known in his
or her hfs a country doctor of this class;
one who settles all great questions with
a grunt, likes % be regarded AZ taciturn.
and has way OF losing his temper in
time 10 prevent the discovery of his
ignorance. This man was one OF that
kind.
He had called in a convention of other
doctors Ia see the Observation-Disclosures
from Trimbelle, Eau Galley, Little
Bethel neighboThood, Harriman's Land
ing and Beldenville, also from Erin
Prairie and East Unionforever.
Cocaine was unknown then, and 40
the doctor had brother physician from
Primroy's Bridge hold my head with
hands that snellsd like pair of saddle
bags. can smell them get. The oper-
ating surgeon. the sphynx who never
was known TO smile, went into a little
dark closet aud smiled by himself. com
ing back with his coat of and the odOr
OF cognac about his whiskers.
lie had ground ups pair of curved toe
nail scissors and had them lying on he
oilcloth OF the table. He now picked up
a button hook which he had used during
the Mexican war, and asked me TO look
intsntly at tho collar button on the back
OF my neck while he made an exaui-
nation" This he did by rolling up the
lid and fastening It in ''the forward" as
he called II. Thea be- hooked the button
book under the internal reetus muscle,