Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-06
IT'S GOOD TO Be PRUNED
So Says Max O'Reil, Speaking
of His Operation.
AwoKE IN A GREEH1sH FOG.

Noted Writer Tells His Experiences
In Being Operated Upon For Ap.
pendicitis-He II an Enthusiastic
Advocate of Surgery and Sings Its
Praises.
Although still an inmate of the
French hospital in New York, Paul
Blouet (Max O'RelD is rapidly recover
Ing from the effects Of the operation for
appendicitis performed few days ago.
He referred to himself as the widest
open man 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 month or so ago decided on
having an operation performed upon
me, some New York papers, short OF in
:eresting matter for their readers pub
lished the information. This brought
me scores of letters from cranks, fad
dists, humbugs, faith healers and the
like. "Give up SIM" 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 surgeon. Out of hundred
people operated on seventy die; the 9TH
er 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 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, SAT-
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 semicolon,
be 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 l was not afraid Of the
operation. l can always submit to the
inevitable, as l once said to very
ugly man who said he was glad te
make my acquaintance because he had
been told looked very much like him
l prepared myself cheerfully for man!
days, SO as to be strong and well anc
give the surgeon and myself as goot
q chance ash could.
What does an operation consist In
even such a long and dangerous one al
I have undergone? You 60 to sleeI
quietly, pleasantly. and by and by yo,
wake up. When you do wake up. yo,
inquire If the thing is done, and yo'
learn that it is. You feel no pain, ant
you have felt no pain. not even discom
fort.
MY operation lasted two hours. and
was under ether from PAS to 5 p. m.
slept soundly all night. The next morn
ing l was reading the papers in bed
All can remember is that when
woke from my enforced sleep had I
vague idea l was in greenish. fogg!
atmosphere. and heard, as in the dis
lance, many soft voices whispering
Hello! Hello! Wake up! How d.
you feel?"
The day after the operation I hat
! teaspoonfuls Of chicken broth ever.
two hours, the following day table
spoonfuls, the next day eggs and mill
and the next such meals as for tw'
years had not dreamed Of permitting
myself to try.
MY dear friends, cannot remembe
Eve minutes of pain. Maybe my anato
my is not improved, but don't wea
decollete dress, and feel l have BEEF
given a new lease of life, of health ant
of happiness.
Operations are absolutely free fror
danger The only thing is that germ
may get at you, but this danger doe
not exist with the marvellous precau
lions of sterilization and antiseptic
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 tn
| threshold of death.
The only thing modern surgery can
not do is to give us new head, thinl
which many Of us would be glad OF
In any other case. if you are wron.
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 a
the psychological moment when b.
asks you to lie down to be put to sleel
! say to him:
"Thanks; after you"