The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-12-27
THE CASE
 OF TINY
IoriEinall

toriginall
 srpn me. doctor. how lt Is that you are working Into such a splendid prac- tee. Is 1t natural adaptabillty for the medical profession. scientific attain ments or hard workf' A.-i .-
 "It Is neither of these, My start eamo from the faculty of adapting my self to my surroundings"
 Explain" "U... u.| |.
 con being graduated from the med lcal college found it advisable to act for a time as house surgeon in a prom lnen' 'ospital l applied for a vacant poSitlOa of this kind where the exam nation was said to be very severe and several young doctors had failed. ] was told that they all knew too little about medicine to satisfy the commit tee I made up my mind that they knew too much. When called before a lot Of gray heads, instead of telling them about new discoveries of which they were ignorant confined myself to the regime of thirty years before. The result was that I passed with fly Ing eolors.
 "Just as I was about to leave the hospital for general practice was call cd one day to SO at once to the house of a maiden lady who took great in- terest in the hospital and was on the board of managers. The lady met me ln the hRn with the exclamation:
 CT fear she's gone
 "'rhe patient is'-
 ""Tiny. Come quick And she led the way upstairs to a bedroom and to a crib in a corner. love children and have made their ailments my speciality. Therefore I was pleased to have an opportunity to help a child. Mss Mur. chison went to the crib, turned down the clothing and exposed-a poodle!
 Overcoming my disappointment and a repulslon have always felt at sec ing a dog treated as a child, held the pOOdle's paw. took out my watch and looked dubious.
 "'Oh. doctor. Is there any hoper
 "sTiny Is suffering from a tubercu- loslty of the left ventricle ot the intes- thea Formerly she must have died. Under the present methods she may be saved. but must take her to my of- hce and perform an operation
 "'Can't 1t be done herer
 "'On no account All my lnstru- ments are there and all my appurte nances.'
 "T will send her at once by my man
 "T would not permit any one but myself to carry her. The heart Is weak. and she must not suffer any shock
 "'oh doctor, how good you are! WIll you send me daily bunctlnsr
 "Every few hours tin Tiny Is out Of danger
 -I took Thy to my office and in an hour sent word to Miss Murchison that she was out oc danger. This was the truth, for the dog was dead.
 Patients calling on me the next day were told that had an important case on hand and would not likely be at the ofice till evening. was hunting dog that looked SO much like Tiny that Mss Murchison would not know the difference. I left my practice for three days to go to the dogs but did rot hnd a mate for the deceased ull the after noon of the third. She was fat little beast. and lt would never do to send her home after so serious an operation In SO sleek condition. SO put her on quarter rations an her bones looked for all the world Ike the ribbed sea sand Then sent word to Miss Mur- chison that she was quite recovered and as soon as could get little flesh on her bones I would send her home. A request came back to send her at once. so I took her myself.
 Miss MurchisOn shed tears over Tiny's condition. The dogs appear anee indicated clearly that I had had a hard struggle to save her life. dreaded lest the lady should discover some difference between the old and the new. and she did.
 "why, doctor she exclaimed, how came that black spot on her stomach where it was pure whiteT
 "'That.' I said, taking out a magnify. Ing glass to gain time. oh. see! That's where the inclsion was made. The skin was removed at that point and frequently after such removal the hair grows again in a different color
 "But that tan on the end of her tall did that come in the same wayY
 T pretended not to hear. When the question was repeated. had solved the medical problem upon which my an' swer depended.
 "Tiny's brain has had a very severe shock, and the brain and spinal column are one and the same. In nervous de presslon human beings are liable to soreness of the coccyx. though we do not usually hnd 1t in dogs. But Tiny you know, is SO Ike a human
 "'she is, doctor, and your apprecia' hon of this fact must have been Of great advantage in her treatment"
 -'One disappointment is In store for you hurried on to divert her atten. ton from any more difference, or, rath. CT. to prepare for another inevitable one. Tiny's memory has been I'm paired. and it will be a week or so in