The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-05-16
some MODERN MIRACLES
Science Mystified by Many OF
These MarvelS.
ESCAPES FROM DEATH


Stab Wound or Bullet In the Heart
No Longer Means Certain Death
a Man With Bullet in His Heart
Still Alive.
1t has been said often since Matth~
ew Arnold's day that miracles dc
not happen Whether that is SO or
not in strict sense, is certainly MOI
so in the popular sense. There are
men and women going about thelI
work today who are living miracles
men and women who seem to have
been snatched from death by prov1.
Dental hands, says London Answers.
Not SO long ago Surrey man was
picked up alive after having rolled
hundreds of feet down the side Of
Welsh mountains and there IS a
schoolmaster in Edinburgh still living
to tell the story of sudden descent
of a thousand feet down Ben Nevis.
These are miracles, indeed!
But even more miraculous-if com
pa-ison in such cases be possible
was the escape of lad who was
driving horse and cart when the AMI"
NAL boted toward the Clifton SuSpen
sion bridge and jumped into gully
200 feet deep. The horse was killed,
and the cart smashed to atoms, but
the boy dropped into the branches oS
a tree and was rescued, the worse
only for O. few scratches.
Another remarkable case is that OF
|
| had every rib broken and every fin
| ger broken. He has been buried un-
| der q heavy fall of rock and almost
suffocated by the heavy fall or graz
ell His skull has been split open by a
| blasting accident, and he has been
struck on the head with a pick. He
has fallen 81 feet, and fractured his
skull and has been crushed between
| loaded trucks. He is now in a casu-
atty ward as the result of another
accident. but still happy, confident
| that he was born for long life and
natural death.
Or consider the thrilling. vivid mar
rative Of a boyonetted Russian soldier
in one OF the Manchurian field hos
pitfalls. 81 should have had the little
jap done for if | had not slipped and
dropped by rifle" he told the doctor
| 1T seemed hours before he probbed
| ne. and | watched the Dayone- c--r.'-
| lug down to me inch by inch--down,
down. down | remember noticing
birthmark on the beasts chin. Then
came the prod, and I screamed. MY
whole body from throat to hips fel;
/ sizzling with molten metal. That
lasted for hours. Then the bayonet
gave wriggle, and | felt it was alive
and biting me on the other side or
my body. Yet I could not keep my
| eyes off the Jap's birthmark. 1t sud
+ denly seemed to swell out of his face,
and look life a balloon. 1t seemed
years before he took the bayonet out
| of me. When he did | could feel
| the blood gushing out of me, and
knew l was a dead man.
But he was not a dead man. The
bayonet had not touched a. single
| vital spot, and he recovered.
A fracture of the spine kills most
| people but here, as in other cases,
! miracles sometimes happen, as in the
| case of a Whitby railroad worker, who
| was received into the hospital after
| a severe fall. his spine being so frac,
! tured that the surgeons regarded HI"
| condition as hopeless A surgical op
| GRAFTON was impossible. Nature, how
ever. did the mysterious work which
| baffled science, and a few months at
terward the man left the ward cured,
| the only sign of his calamity being
| that he carried his head Stiffly, and
| bent somewhat forward. q
| The heart is a vital organ. few
years ago stab or bullet in the
heart would have meant death. To
| day surgery tells a different story
J Some months ago young girl was
! accidentally shot in the heart. DR.
| Manteuffel chloroformed his patient,
and after a marvellous surgical opera
! ton he forced out the bullet with
! his fingers and sewed up the wound,
! and the girl left the hospital cured
| A similar shooting accident hap
| pened to a man named Meyer, who Is
/ a
clinics of Europe. The bullet lodged
in the mans heart and he walks
| about London with it there yet, after
| an interval of two and a half years.
"There was no bleeding after | was
| shot" he tells his friends. 'It is
| riddle. The doctors cannot tell why
| I did not die"
Another personified miracle MAKES
| his home at Guisborough in Yorkshire,
| at the foot of the Cleveland hills. For
upward of 80 years he has been the
| victim of the terrible disease known
as lupus. He has suffered "a opera
| tons Of one sort or another and is
still cheerful, tramping before five
| o'clock every morning several miles
| TO his work in the irOnstone mines
| for which the Cleveland district is
famous, and taking an active part Ill
| his off hours in religious and politi-
cal work of the town in which he
lives. It'll never3say die" he is fond
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