The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-10
THE GHOST OF Az ARM.
Pains Felt in Limb That Has Reen
Amnulated.
From the Lewiston Journal

From the Lewiston Journal
Well it may be so, But stim there's
a good deal OF p0pycock about nerves
and sensations and yearning blood. and
about stumps thar can't shake or the
influence OF the dead flesh A fellow that
has only one arm and a good magma
ton can make ou- a pretty strong case.
The old soldier gave an absent-m.nded
h-rt with the remaining bit Of his left
arm and Hoped his empty sleeve out
into the air Ike a banner. BY a cont0r-
ton, he caught the dangling sleeve cum
ln MS right hand ana tucked II back INTO
MS pocket once more
haven't very good imagination my
ser, tnat Is, so they tell me, put bheh
] lost that arm at AppOmattOX 1 had the
curlouscst aches and snlVers ana l"llches
ana cravings you ever heard o. " nen
1 came around after the operation lay
and endured the pain little while, and
then said TO the nurse:
why didn't they do IT,
w hat do you meant she asked.
Thought the surgeons were going 10
Land sakes' she said. that was
done an hour or SO ago. and you've been
growing and shouting and gritting your
teeth and coming out from under the IN
nuence ever since. Your arm is OIL, ana
the stump nicely dressed and bandaged.
Now drink this and 90 70 sleep
"Of course you've heard all about these
sensations, and the doctors explain en-
an nicely. 30 4 Won 30 AlALD tlltAts ~.
oh, Caesari how I suffered for days with
awful pains in that arm and hand that
were gOne-cut of and buried. Acne,
ache, ache! and I would roll my eyes Gown
as / lay on my pillow, and look right
where that awful aching was ana see only
air.
But that blank spot was filled with such
pain for me that for hours l CROPPED IN tnat
little space marked out by my eyes, trying
to seize and squeeze and rub-Well, dldn
know what. Then l got notions into my
ga
fancy so wildly just what was happening
10 the piece of flesh laid away in the
ground that at least would scream ike a
woman. For every panS that shot through
my arm that was I could see a cleaning
tooth or a writing worm.
That torture wore away, OF course l' I Dut
arm. I used to have rheumatic tWln8eS
in my middle finger. / have EN- now. /
had a felon on my thumb a few months ago
or at least, ] had all the sensations OF
felon. ! could only grunt and bear II.
THAT hand is COLOR rather, perhaps,
to be unders Sho1bI9 a say yba ina an, u
that IL is cold. The hand is numb ana
goes TO sleep IT is warm and throbs, IN
fact, is a strange sort OF a ghosL lndI
haunts me. The sensations, say me uoc-
tors arise in the ends of the several nerves
and l believe them, but al the same time
/ can't feel 'em anywhere ecNepJ IN thal
IAN old friend Of mine up in Fairfield
had a foot amputated a few months ago.
and 10 was buried, DuL IN a rev ueyS lie
began to take on about that foot. lie
said il was cold. The doctor said, ''Poh,
nonsenser He explained about the nerves
and all that but Sc didn't satisfy the old
gentleman. He said he had lived 90 years
and he guessed he knew when his foot
was cold, and no doctor could come any
mind cure over him. The old man want
ed to know all about where they had put
the foot, and. though it wasn't pleasant
subject to talk about and they tried 10
switch him off, he persisted and got so
worked up that il was explained to him
lar bottom. He ordered it dug up. They
refused He insisted He said it was his
foot and he should do as he wanted to.
when the foot was disinterred il was
found that water from a spring in the
ledge had filed the box. The old man
was triumphant, and ordered the member
wrapped in cotton and reinterred in dry
sandy hillside He never complained
again. Now. perhaps that was imagina-
ton. and perhaps If wasn't
"Then there was the man in Sabatis
The surgeons amputated his limb and re-
moved ii to another room. After mis-
wound was dressed a surgeon, desiring to
investigate further, made an incision in
the portion that had been amputated. I'm
mediately the patient in the inner room
leaped up with an awful scream. Some
one cut my leg, he yelled, and his pain
and fright were so real that the limb
was tenderly put away forever. Oh, these
nerves." concluded the old man, tuckins
his empty sleeve down more closely.
Some of this long-distance work of theirs
is mighty tough on the constitution"