The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-14


In Bcisg Operated Upon For APP
pendicitis--He Il an Enthusiastic
Advocate OF Surgery and Sings Its
Praises.
Although still an inmate OF the
French hospital in New York, Paul
Blouet (Niax O'RelD is rapidly recover
ing from the effects OF the operation for
appendicitis performed few days ago.
He referred to himself ac the widest
open msn in New York" two days after
passing under the surgeons knife. Now
he has written his experiences for the
New York Journal. He says:
When q month or so ago | decided on
having an operation performed upon
me. some New York papers, short of In
teresting matter for their readers, pub
lished the information. This brought
me scores of letters from cranks, fad
dists, humbugs, faith dealers and the
like. "Give up sin," some wrote, land
you will be all right"
Try my cure" wrote charlatans. An
other of this class said: Have you
tried hydrotherapy? With hot water
can bring on crisis that will settle
you"
In fact, l received lots of disinterest-
ed advice, and gratis too. A faddist
wrote: "Do not submit TO the cruel
knife Of q suHgeon. Out of a hundred
people operated on seventy die; the 9th
er thirty are MANNED for life"
Ignorance and prejudice so no fur
ther.
Now. dear reader. If you are sure
that something is wrong with any part
Of your anatomy do not hesitate to
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. saf-
est and surest remedy. If your ap-
pendix is wrong. off with it. If your
big intestine. or colon. gets CONSTRUCTED
and threatens TO become a semicolon,
be sure that It will soon become n
full stop and kill you. or with the
offending CONSTRUCTED part. That's your
only chance.
| must say l was not afraid Of the
operation. l can always submit to the
inevitable as | once said to 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 a 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 IL the thing is done, and you
learn that II is. You feel no pain, and
you have felt no pain, not even distom-
fort.
My operation lasted two hours, and
was under ether from 2:45 to p. IN.
slept soundly all night. The next morn
ing was reading the papers In bed.
All / can remember Is that when
woke from my enforced sleep had q
vague idea I was In greenish foggy
atmosphere, and heard, as in the dis
tance, many soft voices whispering:
Hello! Hello! Wake upl How do
you feelT"
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, l cannot remember
FIVE minutes of pain. Maybe my anato-
my is not improved. but | don't wear
decolete dress, and feel l have been
given new lease of life, of health and
of happiness.
Operations are absolutely free from
danger. The only thing is that germs
may get at you, but this danger does
not exist with the marvellous precau
tions OF sterilization and antiseptics
which are taken by the surgeons of to
day.
| have been in the French hospita
for three weeks. During that tim'
about forty operations have been per
formed. and every one has been sue
cessful, even including few perform
ed on patients brought here on th'
threshold OF death.
The only thing modern surgery can
not do Is to give us a new head, thinl
which many of US would be glad of
In any other case, IL you are wronl
anywhere, don't suffer. Take my ad
vice-ask the surgeon to rid you o
what makes your life miserable.
Make up your mind and do not n
the psychological moment when h
asks you to lie down to be put to sleel
say to him:
Thanks; after you" Iyt