Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-02-13

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| AWOKE IN A e.. aaEa 100.
Noted Writer Tell. Ills Experiences
I'm Being Operated iron For APP
Dendfcit1s-He In an enthusiastic
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 a few days ago
He referred to himself Is 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 a month or 70 ago 1 decided on
J me, some New York papers, short OF in
terestng matter for their readers, pub
lshed the information. This brought
me scores Of letters from cranks, fad
dists, humbugs,. faith healers and the
like. "Gtve up sin," some wrote, land
you will be all right"
TRY my cure" wrote c~harlatans. An
other Of this class said: "Have you
tried hydrotherapy? With hot water l
can bring on a crisis that will settle
you"
In fact, I received lots Of disinterest-
ed advice, and gratis too. A faddist
wrote: "Do not submit to the cruel
knife Of a surgeon. Out Of a hundred
people operated on seventy die; the 9TH
er thirty are MANNED for Life"
Ignorance and prejudice go 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 o would
order your gardener to do to your trees
under the same circumstances.
Have the damaged, broken Or dead
branches taken off. Pr~uning-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 a 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.
l must say 1 was not afraid Of the
operation. 1 can always submit to the
inevitable. as l once said to a cry
ugly man who said he was glad to
make my acquaintance because he had
been told 1 looked very much like him.
I prepared myself cheerfully for many
days, so as to be strong and well and
give the surgeon and myself as good
q chance as | could.
What does an operation consist in,
even such a long and dangerous n as
I 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 1t is. You feel no pain, and
you have felt no pain, not ever discom
fort.
MY operation lasted two hours, and I
was under ether from 2:45 to 8 p. H.. I
slept soundly all night. The next morn
ing 1 was reading the papers in bed.
All 1 can remember is that when I
woke from my enforced sleep I had a
vague idea I was in a greenish, foggy
atmosphere, and I heard, as in the dis
lance, many soft voices whispering:
"Hello! Hello! Wake up! How do
you feel?''
The day after the operation I had
t~easpoonfuls of chicken broth every
two hours, the following day table
s~poonfuls, the next day eggs n milk
and the next such meals as for two
years I had not dreamed Of permitting
myself to try.
Ny dear friends, I cannot remember
five minutes of pain. Maybe my anato-
my is not improved, but I don't wear
decollete dress, and I feel I have been
given a 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-
tons of sterilization and a~ntiseptics
which are taken by the surgeons of to-
day.
1 have beer in the French hospital
for three weeks. During that time
about forty operations have been per
formed, and every one has been sue
c~essful, even including a few perform
ed on patients brought here on the
threshold of death.
The only thing modern surgery can
not do is to give us a new head, a thing
which many Of us would be glad of.
In any other case, if you are wrong
anywhere, don't suffer. Take my ad.
vice-ask the surgeon to rid you of
what makes your life miserable.
Make up your mind and do not at
the psychological moment when he
asks you to lie Town to be put to sleep
say to him:
Thanks; after you"