The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1899-10-19
A Very Hot Patient


town. began the attending physician at au
east side hospital They have the ability
to feien diseases, throw fs on the street,
get picked up by the ambulance and some
times they impose upon the house pbysi
cian and the purses and are allowed to
stay q little while in e hospital. knew
OF one man who was really an expert 1t
The business. He puzzled the doctors and
lived for the greater part OF thrse years et
various hospitals. Twas one OF bis dnpes,
/ had q hurry call TO house on Second
avenue. Oa the second floor ! found my
mao lying unconscious, with blood npon
bis mouth, | felt bis pulse and found
there wasn't anything unusnal about that.
Then. in tearing of his clothes to make
q hurried examination, | found tnat his
ribs on the left 81 o were sll pasted up
with court plaster, 10 strips. lust as any
doctor would fix up broken ribp,
That's where the blood comes from, ]
6AlQ ~ Onbe. Oub Oi tnt ifbctuteu tiDe
has slipped and punctured the lung.
gave him something to stop the bleed
ing and hypodermic injection to bring
him ont. and then / bouni mp an open
bruise / discovered 90 bis eltow. While
be was recov ring Consciousness | took
bis Temperature and found IL away up
I08 and 100 Nov the normal tempers
ture OF human being is 9S4. 10 the
worst cases OF pneumonia we don't expect
to fiud in over los
Just then the man came TO and tried TO
make me understand what had happened
to him. Igot German in from across
the ball to interpret. The patient ssid he
bad fallen through an open batcn on
schooner bound from Baltimore TO New
York abouta month ego; that be had been
attended by 9 physician Oh bis arrival
here and had got along all right until
now when be suddenly collapsed. His
tenn mpe rstnre showed me that had ser
ious case on my hands, though couldn't
tell for the life OF me what was the matter
with him.
hurried him into the hospital. put
him,to bed and explained the extraordinary
feature OF bis case 10 the house. The
house took his temperature sgsIn, snd
Il was Ill Then we drugged him and
irugged him and gave his feet cold baths
md took bis temperature again. 1t had
,un up TO ll3. And there didn't seem TO
be any thing the matter With him except
hat
Every body in the hospital got to talk
pg about the case. When the attending
vent through tho ward the house hurried I,
ilm by the German. he didn't want to
confess tbAt be WAS staggered. The ps
lent didn't grow any worse. He main
aimed constantly high temperature any
where between ITO and 1875, and we kept
lp the drugs and cold foot baths.
Oae day the attending roticed the case
md asked how long that man was going TO
,e kept 10 bed to cure 3 sore elbow.
Then the nurse told him. Take his TEN !
said the Attending, q
The nurse put the tbermom eter 10 the
nsn's mou b under bis tongue and the 4
|octor watched him nsrrowly. All ofs |
udden be walked up to the bed. Get
ut OF here Get up and dress and don't {
ct me see you again, be said sternIy to /
be patient. q
And in bali az hour the man was out on
be side walk. You see that doctor was q
u older man than any Of us. He saw the |
pan was taking, that be manipulated the
thermometer 10 his mouth 90 that by iric =
ion be could run IL up IS high % be
LEASED. d
The next day this same man was picked q
p on the street snd taken to smother
ospitsl, aud the same doctor who Was /
tending at both places csught him there Y
hs very fret thing. For three years !
card OF that German cff and on. slwsys n
iih the same patched ribs, sore elbow
al extraordinary Temperature. Why, h
ne doctor up IN Connecticut wrote a
sper for medical review 10 which be
id be had found . msn apparently in =
ornsl health With 8 temperature Of 1871 J
was our mslisper. 4.
II couldn't have been any iuu either. q,
be doctors we're always ct him With ID
y ypodermics, cold water and 60 on. He
I'd qn,er asta.