The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-05
IT'S GOOD TOBE PRUNED
60 Says Max o'Rell, Speaking
of His Operation.

U.,+er Tells His Experiences
peing Operated Upon For APP
.ndicitis-He Is an Enthusiastic
. of surgery and Sings Its
Praises.
.,4horoh still an inmate OF the
french hospital in New York paul
plouet Max o'RelD is rapidly recover
from the effects of the operation for
S ,ondicitis performed few days ago.
TIa referred to himself as the widest
anon man in New York" two days after
Oossing under the surgeons knife. Now
pe has written his experiences for the
Now York Journal. He says:
whom month or so ago l decided on
.or;no an operation performed upon
No some New York papers. short OF IN
+orosting matter for their readers, pub
,'~,,od the information. This brought
.1,o scores of letters from cranks. fad
dis+s humbugs, faith healers and the
like "GlVe up Sih' sum-
Won will be all right"
"Try my cure" wrote charlatans. An
o+bar Of this class said: Have you
tried bydrotherapy? With hot water
oan hiring on a crisis that will settle
you a,s;n+oros+
cd advice, and gratis too. A faddlst
wrote. "Do not submit to the cruel
Info Of a surgeon. Out of hundred
noonle operated on seventy die; the 9TH
o. thirty are MANNED for life."
IGNORANCE and prejudice go no fur
Their.
Now. dear reader, if you are sure
that something is wrong with any part
Of YOUR anatomy do not hesitate 70
have done to yourself what you would
order your gardener to do to your trees
under the same circumstances.
Have the damaged, broken or dead
branches taken off. Pruning-that is,
surgery-is the simplest, shortest, SAT-
est and surest remedy. If your APP
pendix is wrong, off with it. Ii your
big intestine, or colon. gets CONSTRUCTED
and threatens to become'a semicolon,
he sure that it will soon become a
full stop and kill you. Off with the
offending CONSTRUCTED part. That's your
only chance.
must say I was not afraid of the
operation. can always submit to the
inevitable, as l once said to a very
ugly man who said he was glad to
make my acquaintance because he had
been told looked very much like him.
prepared myself cheerfully for many
days, so as to be strong and well and
give the surgeon and myself as good
a chance as could.
What does an operation consist in.
even such long and dangerous one as
| have undergone? You go to sleep
quietly, pleasantly, and by and by you
wake up. When you do wake up, you
inquire if the thing is done, and you
learn that it is. You feel no pain, and
you have felt no pain, not even discom-
fort.
My operation lasted two hours. and |
was under ether from 2:45 to 5 p. m.
slept soundly all night. The next morn
ing l was reading the papers in bed.
All l can remember is that when
woke from my enforced sleep / had
vague idea l was in a greenish foggy
atmosphere, and heard, as in the dis
lance, many soft voices whispering:
Hello! Hello! Wake up! How do
you feel?
The day after the operation l had
teaspoonfuls of chicken broth every
two hours, the following day table
spoonfuls the next day eggs and milk
and the next such meals as for two
years had not dreamed of permitting
myself to try.
My dear friends, cannot remember
five minutes of pain. Maybe my anato-
my is not improved, but l don't wear
decolete dress, and feel have been
given new lease of life, of health and
of happiness.