San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-14
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SOME SURGICAL CASES,
DIR. MENGER's INTERESTING PRO-
FBssIONAL "REMINISCENCES
He Cites Some Remarkable Accidents That
Have Come Under His Per-
sonal Observation.

DIR. Menger showed a reporter a
worry interesting record book of his,
in which he has gathered during the
French. Paschal and Elmendorf al
mipistration most of the important
health and sanitary statistics, accl-
dents and injuries, hospital cases,
etc. and the following are only Few
of the interesting accident ana sursl'
cal cases that have occurred IN the
CITY during the last ten to twenty
wears. and all these cases are surNN'
ing yet.
"In 1877 a Mexican boy, 6-years'
old. was attacked by chained
nonther and had his scalp ana race
literally torn to pieces. Near stock
ward on South Flores street, ller-
chant. who had a special tanc! ior
Wild animals. had wild panther
and hear chained to a post, one after'
rnon n Mexican child happened 10
COMO too close TO the beasts, anu'
with one leap. the panther struck the
,I,iid down, burrowinS It's shaIl'
claws in the scalp and race Ga 'he
child. Amid wild screams, ana COY
cred with blood, the child was lucElly
rescued by neighbors from pelhs
sneedily killed, and the child was theh
brought to Kalteyers drug store
where the city physician dressed Ine
cbiId's wounds. and then had the
child removed to it's home on the
AIazan Creek. This boy, Leon Ra-
mirez. is today well and hearty ana
has n happy young wife with a child
living at his old place at one OF the
nictnresoue Mexican settlements
near the Alanza Creek, and the scars
are still to be seen on the young
mans head. ,,
in 1875 a Mexican woman, living
on the way to San PEDRO SPRINGS
the so-called chihuahua settlement,
was attacked by a Jealous Mexican
and fearfully injured by a hatchet'
When seen by the city physician lhe
woman WAS lying on the floor III a
pool of blood and the bloody hatcher
near her side. Her skull was trac-
tured in two places, in the mlddle
and back part of her head, ana the
sides this the left side of her neck
was chopped with the Ratchet clean
through the deep muscles, and she
was nearly bleeding to death from
the wound. Her chest was struck,
showing two fractured upper rlbs
on the left side, and also a fracture
of the clavicle This butchering, the
record says, was done about III
O'Clock at night, and on the following
morning the woman was still living,
and under the careful attention of the
attending physician she recovered.
Dr. Menger tells us that this woman
made a good recovery, and that
she is now living yet in some of the
Mexican settlements, having seen her
some months past, and she has two
large depressions in her head, each
two inches wide and a large deep
scar on left side of neck.
a horrible accident is also recorded
of young man, German, who was
run into by butchercart some years
ago. The young man was on horse
back, and as he was galloping along
the street a butchercart came at full
speed, and in such a hurry that
both collided, the shaft of the butch
ercart penetrating the boys thigh
near and upward of his right leg,
running the shaft clean through the
muscles and the whole length of the
thigh, back and upward through the
lower cavity of the pelvic bone,
where it escaped through the glutael
muscles, so that the entrance and eX-
it of the shaft made a canal two feet
long. In spite of this fearful injury
the young man made splendid re-
covery, without even shortening his
leg, and the two broad and deco
leg, and the two broad and deep
scars, which are larger than mans
and he has no Inconvenience in walk.
ing whatever and nobody will notice