Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-07-28
SIX INCHES or 1-Ne.
N stopped IN Obstinate Nosebised a ply
stefan Ceald Not Cheoh.

N Stopped IN Obstinate Nosebtsed a Phy
stefan Could Not Chsoh.
Pretty soon after the mrninc
train ON the Consolidated 9 road pullet
out Of New London station. west
ward bound, the conductor bolt,
through the drawing room car doc
and mixed. Ii there physician l.
this carr
All the PassengerE gazed at tai
nlan who kti,t down his paper spoke
10 the conductor and went out with
I'm minute later Twenty min
Llss after when the conductor came
in view every passenger asked him
the same question, and in reply be
said "Oh, it's man in the smoker
he's got nosebleed; nasal hemol
..hage. the doctor Calls it. His nos,
has been bleeding ever since we lefi
East Greenwich. and it hasn't stopped
yet"
What is the doctor doing for itg'
inquired a man.
HE has .bIst put in a tampon, and
we've all pooled in our handker
:hiefs for therpoor fellow; he'sget.
ting awfully white and weak"
In one of the rear chairs OF, the car
Sat young woman who had flushed
md paled at rapid intervals as the
eonductor'talked, and when she final
ly beckoned to- him he quickly moved
to her side.
Il think j know something to stop
the nosebleed. ] never knew it to
fail, "she timidly asserted, but may
70 / ought not to suggest it if the
gentleman is in the doctors care"
The doctor is about getting dis
outraged, and the packing in the
mans nose doesn't seem TO stanch the
dow at ALI If you knowsanything,
4 guess everybody would thank you
to tell it,
A few moments later the con.
ductor took the. young woman into
thesmokerat the physicians request.
The medical man said, Pardon me,
but if you have any knowledge of a
remedy to stop nasal hemorrhage
10Th this patient and would be in
:ensely grateful to you. +"
Have you piece Of twine--or'
binary Wrapping twiheG" said the
girl. On from bundle quickly
came a piece. The girl took it, asked
the loan Of knife, and cuttinga
piece of twine about 9 inches in
length tied 1t very tightly around
the little finger OF the left hand of
the man. with the nosebleed. Then
she asked the conductor to escort her
back to her ear
1t was not five minutes later when
the doctor came through the car
door and went straight for 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 perfectly
successful, he said and asked per
mission to take a vacant chair near
her.
1T is strange, he continued, ''how
many times in physician's life he
finds all bis acquired science useless
before the common sense of some
nonprofessional person. Why, !
might have known If | had only
stopped to think that your remedy
couldn't fail. Just as soon as you
began tying that string around the
little finger / knew it would stop the
bleeding, and it could not have done
otherwise OF course you know the
scientific reason for il, the fact Of
the arteries passing through thedit-
tie finger and all about thatf"
NO" she said, II only know my
grandmother told mother of it, and
she told me. | am a teacher, and
quite often in the first warm days In
spring the little children in my de-
partment in school have nosebleed.
! always get some twine from the
boys pockets and tie 1t tightly
around the little finger of the child.
and it has never failed to stop the
flow. New York Recorder.