The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-09-06
Worth Knowing.


train on the Consolidated road pulled
out of New London Station the other
day, westward bound, the conductor
bolted through the drawing room car
door and asked: "Is there physi-
clan in this CARP"
All the passengers gazed at tall
man who laid down the paper, spoke
to the conductor, and went out with
him minute later. Twenty minutes
later, when the conductor came in
view, every passenger asked him the
same question, and in reply he said:
"Oh, it's man in the smoker. He's
got nose-bleed-nasal hemorrhage, the
doctor calls it. His nose has been
bleeding ever since we left East
Greenwich, and it hasn't stopped
yet"
"What is the doctor doing for it 2"
inquired a man.
''He has just put in tampon, and
we We all pooled in our 'handkerchiefs
for the poor fellow. He isgetting aw-
fully white and weak.
In one of the rear chairs of the car
sat a young woman who had flushed
and paled at rapid intervals as the
conductor talked, and when she finally
beckoned to him, he quickly moved to
her side.
s'I think I know something to stop
the nose-bleed. I never knew it to
fail, she timidly asserted, "but may
be [ ought not to suggest it it the
gentleman is in the doctors care.
"The doctor is about getting dis
couraged, and the packing in the
man s nose don't seem to staunch the
flow at all. If you know anything l
guess everybody would thank you to
tell it.
A few moments later the conductor
took the young woman into the smoker
at the physician s request. The med
ical man said s'Pardon me, but if
you have any knowledge of a remedy
to stopnasal hem orrhage, both this pa
tient and would be intensely grateful
to you" ("
'Have you piece of twine-ordi-
nary wrapping twine p said the girl.
Off from a bundle quickly came a
piece. The girl took it, asked the
loan Of knife, and cutting piece Of
the twine about six inches in length,
tied it very tightly around the little
finger of the left hand of the man with
the nose-bleed. Then she asked
the conductor to escort her back to her
car.
1t was not five minutes later when
the doctor came through the car-door
and went straight to the place where
the young woman sat. She was busily
engaged in reading a magazine, but
looked up as he spoke to her.
"Your remedy has been per-
fectly successful" he said, and asked
permission to take vacant chair near
her.
"It is strange" he econtinucd, chow
many times in physician life he
finds all his acquired science useless
before the common sense of some nom
professional person. Why I might
have known, if I had only stopped to
think, that your remedy couldn't fail.
"Just as soon as you began tying
that string around the little finger, I
knew it would stop the bleeding, and
could not have done otherwise. Of
course you know the scientific reason
for 1.-THE fact of the arteries passing
through the little finger, and allabout
that p
"No," she said, IT only know my
grandmother told mother Of it, and
she told me. I am teacher and quite
often in the first warm days in spring
the little children in my department
in school have nose bleed. I always
get some twine from the boys pockets
and tie it tightly around the little finger
of the child and it has never failed to
stop the Aow."
| was in downtown restaurant
that evening when the physician was
telling the story, and he said at the
end Of it: "She was devilish pretty
young woman, with mouth that said
all the time kiss me 7 and eyes that
said NO man ever had or would but
her sweetheart-when she had one. y
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