New-York tribune., 1893-11-26
IN A TYPHOID WARD.
HOW MEDICAL SKILL SUBDUES TIE RAW
ACES OF THIS DANGEROUS FOE.

| 1T APPEARS SIMPLE, WHEN You KNOW HOW 1T S
DoxE-sTIANGE EXPERIENCES IX GREAT
CITY nospiTAL-As COSMOPOLITAN AS
An EAsT-stDE ELECTION II Th1cT.
whats the matter with me. Doctor?
The physician looking at MS watch' ana
counting the pulse beat, but he said nothing.
Whats the matter with me?' the patient again
asked.
The Doctor was busy examining little clinical
thermometer which ne held in his hand, 10 see
how far the mercury had peeh ioiceu up H''o
the glass tube.
zone hundred and five.' he muttered to hinself
as he pulled out of his top walstcoat pocket
little morocco leather case and replaced the IN
strument carefully. zone hundred and hve-that
high" Then turning aside he whispered In sti
lower tone to the nurse. II cannot do any more;
this thing must run It's course; would ADVISE that
he be sent Immediately to hospital
"Wha,s that Doctorr' said the sick man, who
thought he overheard little of this conversation
The physician however, was not to be moved
He drew his chair close to the bedside ana the
man who lay there could easily get WORD out
of the Statue of Liberty hear him speak the
way in which he sought to evade every question:
and yet not give the appearance of refusing' was
n study His attitude was not unlike that OF
man who suddenly discovering burglar In MS
room, begins to temporize with him. whiie await
ing the result OF message that he has just sent
through n telcphone to the nearest police station.
wIIIRLED AWAY IN Az AMBULANCE
Soon there n rattle OF wheels over 'he COD
bic stones and a moment later came a loud ring
ing OF the bell
What is that. DoctorY'
Just then two men stepped into the room. wear
ing handsome uniforms. They had on caps with
patent-lcather peaks which shore brilliantly. and
gold bands above which was the word ambu-
lance" IT not so much their arrival put inc
suddcnness of their arrival that unnerved the
patient. but before he had time to say anything
his pulse and temperature were taken "A hurried
talk passed between the strange doctor and tho
other. and the sick man was lifted bodily out OF
bed and carried downstairs on stretchcr TO the
ambulance The landlady tainted the servant be
gan TO cry, the dog barked vigorously and the
water faucets left running at full speed began to
flood the whole place. Confusion reigned In that
house during the rest of the day. and. more omin-
Gus than all the other signs Of trouble and lamen-
tation the clock stopped. In the old times. or In
these times In country places. the Unforeseen be-
havior on the part OF the clock woubl be Thought
bad: but when the person most Interested became
well enough some weeks later to hear OF the COM
motion that accompanied his forcible removal from
the house. he regarded the incident tribute
to the Importance OF the occasion For IS 1t not "A
fact well established that the instant the first
rumblings OF an earthquake felt clocks stop?
Tho trip to the hospital was not long one. and
this was we'll for the rattle OF the wheels the
rough pavement is anything but agreeable ex-
perence. IT required only short time 10 slide the
stretcher into "A little four r-whceler. similar In
many respects 10 the pushcart OF Italian pea
nut vendcr With rubber tires on the wheels. no
noise made the patient was wheeled along
into the receiving ward to have his pedigree
taken. The groaning OF "A man. evidently in great
pain. disturbed the quiet OF the place at intervals.
His broken leg was being set. and the physicians
doing all that human skill could do TO render
henrnhln his suffering