El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-17
18th YEAR, NO. 271
bandaging the wounded leg was too far
fetched and he didn't believe it.
RISE IN TEMPERATURE.

Uanu6SlHS Gue wounded leg was too lar
fetched and he didn't believe it.
RISE IN TEMPERATURE.
"As a surgeon, do you say that fatty
matter will always cause q rise in tenn
perature?'
"If the matter is sufficient to cause .
rise In temperature it will"
"Of course 1--WE know, doctor, that
anything that is sufficient to cause Q
rise in temperature will cause rise in
temperature" replied Mr.. Clarke,
sneeringly. els there any danger
from toxin? Will it cause death or .
rise in temperature?"
ut will,'
''All things else being equal Is not .
man in more or less danger from dead
tissue?''
"Dead tissue is not dangerous for q
certain length of time, but when it
decOmposes, bacteria sets in and it be-
comes dangerous. An antiseptic de-
stroys the bacteria aud preserves the
meat indefinitely, wherever it
TOUGHEST"
"Now, doctor. as a physician and
surgeon would you swear that an ap-
plication of bi-chloride of mercury or
other similar solution applied to Han
ways wounded leg would have destroy
ed all the bacteria that might have been
In the crushed leg?"
ut might and might not"
''If you were present and had looked
on you could not tell whether al the
bacteris>had b en- destroyed or not"
"No sir.''
explain to the jury how the car
wheel could drive this fat substance to
the brain and it could not be done by
pressure afterwards" @
"When the crushing takes place all
the arteries, ETC., are open; it has
Tee demonstrated that fatty emb oliem
cannot be produced by surgical opera
tions"
Further questions were asked in re.
gard to cleansing the wound and then
the lawyers got into q slight wrangle
and addressed some rather pointed re-
marks to one another before the cross
examin alton as resumed.
BACTERIA IN DRovES.
In reply to questions DR.. Bronnagall
testified that ptomain was sometimes
the product of toxins and sometimes
not. He could not fully recall the ex-
act families of bacteria that produced
but they were numerous. He
became somewhat ratified under the
cross fire of Attorney Clarke and
twirled his handkerchief like
schoolgirl on examination
day.
''Will you tell US how ptomains may
be formed?"
"Well, not very easy: disease, pro-
aucing bacteria do not produce
ptomains."
"Isnt it fact that bacteria produce
ptomains and some of the ptomains are
poisonous and some are nOt?"
"Yes, that's correct; some of them
ire not poisonous.
The Judge Interrupted the attorney.
who was digging up the full history of
;oxins, saying that he saw no necessity
or W asting time by asking questions of
hat nature. This caused thelattorney
or plaintiff to switch off. "Toxin
might result from a delay in
an operation after an in
ury has been sustained?" asked the
attorney.
"Yes, sir, the surgeon should ope-
ate as soon as it became reasonably
'afe to do so.'
Redirect by Mr.. Turney.
doctor, in case of crushed leg by q
ar wheel what condition would the leg
oe imp"
"It would be in a crushed and de-
7itislIzed condition and there would be
! reasonable certainty of the germ
solution entering all parts
If it. It would not have been proper
% place the patient under the nfiuence
" an anesthetto when the wound Was
:leansed, as he would probably have
lied from heart failure
"Would it have been possible to
lave driven anything into the circula-
ion thirty hour after this injury vas
Inflicted. by the application of ban
lages?" asked Judge Newton for Dr..
Graves.
"No, SIR"
care you acquainted with Dr..
eyes, sir. have known him for 30
ears and know him to be very sue
essful surgeon."
Were the bandsges properly ap-
lied by DR.. Turner?" asked Capt
seall for the railway campany.
Eyes, in my opinion they were, aud
be proper method was followed for de-
troying germs. 1 believe the man
led from fatty embolism, and draw my
from the symptoms.
PER CENT OF DEATHS.
"What per cent of persons injured
y railways die from the effect of am
utstion?'' asked Mr.. Burees for DIR.
urner.
''About 35 per cent"
sis there any way to tell exactly
hat caused death?'
mo, We can only conjecture and
raw conclusions from the symp-
,ms."
Recross by Mr.. Davis.
"Were the symptoms of Hanway's
lsease, of which he died. inconsistent
ith the theory that he died from
kin poison?"
"They were not"
STRONG POINT.
Mr.. Clark made stroug point by
king the witness which was con-
dered by surgeons the greater 4 q
sr, the shock of the accident or bsc-
ria.
Witness said that the surgeons usual