The Portland daily press., 1896-10-24
HER BED is WATER.
Wonders Worked by Modern Medical
Science.
MRS. TAYLOR YOUNG AND THE
PLUCKY FIGHT FOR HER LIFE.

Bullet Lodged Against Her Spine Produc-
ing Paralysis, Sorry Result.
Like wounded naiad reposing in her
native element, Mrs. Talyor Young of
Morehead, KY, lies in trough of water
at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Gin
pinnati, awaiting deliveranco from a
Siege of pain which it has taxed science
to i is Utmost limits to alleviate.
That Mrs. Young is still in the land of
the living is due to the progress of medi-
cal skill and her tenacious fondness for
n life that in her splendid womanhood
holds out promise of happier days. De-
feature has not been destroyed. Her long
golden hair hanging in luxuriant profu-
zion over one end of tho trough, which
has been her bed for many months is as
glossy as before her terrible accident, and
her blue eyes have lost none of their lus.
ter.
Mrs. Young is the greatest marvel in
the annals of rare medical cases, and
hundreds of physicians have made pill
grimages to the hospital of the good Sis
ters to convince themselves of It's many
strange phases. AT first the treatment
accorded Mrs. Young was regarded with
incredulous smiles by many of the older
Nom bers of the profession, and the
prophecy was freely made that she could
not survive under the existing con-
ditions. As the days merged into weeks
and the weeks into months wonder took
The place of soothing, and the daring and
iar-seeing physicians who adopted the
novel method of treatment are now the
recipients Of the congratulations of their
colleagues.
1t was in the early part of Last March
when Mrs. Young, then living with her
husb@n MT. Taylor Young, in Morehead,
KY, was accidentally wounded by the
discharge of her husbands revolver. The
accident in itself was peculiar from the
fact that the young wife was accustomed
to handling weapons of all kinds, and is
herself good shot with pistol or rifle.
On the day the accident occurred Mr.
Young had returned home from trip
through the country, and, handing his
revolver to his wife, told her to clean 1t,
a task she had performed many times
before.
While she WAS in the act of doing SO
the weapon was discharged, and the bull
let struck the unfortunate woman square,
ly in the chest. With moan she sank
backward, and the distracted husband,
after spending a briet period over her
PROSTATE form in the vain effort to
stanoh the blood, orieo for help, which
quickly came from score of neighbors
The best medical skill that Morehead
and the surrounding country could fur
nish was summoned. to the bedside OF the
injured woman.
When these men of science held out no
hope to the grief-stricken husband and
distracted parents, other cities were
drawn upon for their best medical skill.
But the verdict was the same-nothinp
but death could effect the young wom-
ans release from her agony, and scienos
was helpless. The ball had penetrated
the chest, and, while barely missing the
lungs and the descending portion of the
aorta. had certainly lodged against the
spine. The latter theory was borne out
by the fact that the poor woman was
completely paralyzed, the various organs
refusing their usual functions.
In this awful dilemma, with nothing
to lose and everything to gain, the hus-
band AMI the aged father of the young
woman turned their eyes to Cincinnati
EFFORT TO SAVE 4 PRECIOUS
LIFE.
A correspondence began with the au-
thoiities of the Good Samaritan Hospital
in Cincinnati, and two weeks after the
accident Mrs. Young was made as COM
Portable as possible in one of the sunuiest
rooms of that noble institution, and tine
good Sisters, with that tender care for
which they are noted, spared no pains to
minister to their patients wants.
DR.. Whitaker, as one of the staff of
the hospital, was called upon to sea the
case, but, it being out OF his line, he
turned the case over to DR.. Ciramer,
who in turn called in DR.. Joseph Rams
choff. 1t needed but cursory examina-
tion to establish the fact that probing for
the ball under the existing conditions
was out of the question, and that to