Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-22
MY VACATION.


treating and operating upon them.
The doctors were very kind, explain
ing their methods and giving instruc-
tlon In the matter of treatment. Ship
building is very bad work for the eyes.
l saw three eyes removed in three
days from having received injuries
from flying steel. I saw the doctor
dissect an eye which had been remov
ed and 1T was found that the steel had
passed nearly through the eye, the
whole interior being filed with blood.
[ saw four cataracts removed, six
cross-eyes Strengthened and several
artificial pupils made. In the Jeffer
son hospital I saw a wonderful opera
ton where the surgeon made what he
called an exploratory incision six
inches long on the person of college
professor, who supposed he might
have tumor in his side. The doctor
ran his hand down into the mans
bowels to discover a large cancer
growing on his left kidney, adhering
to the bowels SO that it could not be
removed. The professor disappoint-
ed, the sweat streaming from his face,
was obliged to close the wound and to
| tell the man, when he came out from
! the influence of the ether that there
was no help for him. Later, the pro-
lessor invited him to go with him as
he visited the patients in his ward of
| the hospital The first patient was
man, the outlet of whose stomach had
| become closed to the size of a lead
pencil. The man was dying of starv-
alton. About ten days before, the doc
| tor had made an incisiOn, taken the
stomach out, cut a long slit in it,pass-
ed his finger and adilator into the
outlet and stretched it to the extent
of one and one half inches. He then
sewed up the wounds he had made
and the man was apparently cured.
The doctor spoke to him and said,
ssI am new man, [ am born again, L
can eat any thing and it sets WELL"
The next patient examined had
been treated for "apendistis." The
man had been operated on four days
previously, the appendix having been
removed, and he was doing we'll. The
professor seemed very proud of his
success IN this case.
Later in the day visited the United
States mint, always a point of great
interest. The guides are always very
kind and explain everything that is to
be seen. They were coming silver
that day from silver "bricks''-square
shaped pieces of silver metal-worth
about 81 900 each.
These are first melted into ingots,115
inches wide, = inch thick and IL inches
long They are run through rollers
until they are of the right thickness
for the coin which is to be stamped;
they are then run through die,
which cuts the round pieces and feeds
them into dies of great power, where
the impression is made upon them.
They are then counted and put in
bags, each containing $1,000. Among
the curiosities in the Mint are old
coins, which date back thousand
years B. @. Here can be seen the typi-
cal "widow's mite" the she'll money
of Africa, the Chinese money with
holes though it, the japanese coin,
which is quite like the American
money-in fact, the coins of all times
and all nations. Every manner Of
piece that was ever coined IN our
minis is found here. The guide show
ed me a certain piece which he said
this q oliver
dollar, issued in 1904, valuable on ac-
count or its being rare. The old coin
in this room is said to have cost the
government S25, 900 and is worth much |
more. [ next visited City Hall, a
building which has already cost over !
twenty million dollars. On the tower,
1921 feet from the ground, the great |
statue of VIM. Penn is placed. I went
up on the roof Of the building $50 feet |
and concluded that I had got high |
enough. Here a grand view of the
city is obtained.
Wanamaker's store was next visit
ed. Aside from the interest one has
in one of the largest mercantile insti-
buttons in the world, the elegant
paintings, relics, curiosities, etc.,
making something, though on a small
er scale, not unlike the building of
Manufactures and Liberal Arts at the
Worlds Fair.
I spent the last day of my stay in
one Of the hospitals. Here I saw
Prof. Fox of the eye department re-
4oxo ~ CT, iorIf
eyes, treating granulated lids, etc.
In another part of the hospital I saw
a man, who, few days previously