The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-03-15

them, and by the way they are not
unpleasant, because the first tastes
good deal like beer and the other he
knows is beer, If he has been through
the performance before, he asks when
he Is to take the salts. The gentle
nurse assures him there are no salts,
nothing more to take. This pleases
him very much, as he breads the re-
duction of his strength that he knows
will follow a dose of salts. The first
glass contained what is known in the
hospital as Mayo cocktail" being a
mixture of castor oil and beer, not at
all unpleasant to the taste.
He enters the hospital at about 4
o'clock in the afternoon without hav-
ing paid his hotel bill down town, and
all the preliminaries having been ar
ranged at the hospital he re-enters the
hack, which has been waiting at the
door, and goes back to town until 6
o'clock. From past experience he be-
lieves he will go to bed hungry that
night, but to his establishment a nurse
brings in a nice supper, without meat,
and he is directed to eat. Again he
feels his spirits revive, because he
realizes that again his strength is be-
ing conserved against the morrow.
Then, as an experiment, he asks if he
may have a glass of water The reply
comes in the form of a large pitcher
of the precious fluid and he is told
he may drink all he wants before mid
night.
Sleeps Like Boy.
Thus encouraged by the mild treat
ment he has received and fortified by
the strength that had been retained
through this treatment, the patient
goes to sleep at a reasonable hour and
sleeps like boy going out on picnic
the next morning. When he awakens,
he is of course not allowed to eat or
drink, but he takes a bath which re-
freshes him, and he gets along pretty
well until II o'clock, when his opera
ton is scheduled which is tenth on
the program Of fourteen for that morn
ing. He walks calmly over to the
electric elevator which lifts him to
the top floor of the building, where the
operating rooms are located. There
are two Of these, in one Of which DR..
w. H. Mayo works and the other for
DR.. Charles Mayo. And to correct any
misunderstanding about the work at
this hospital, it is asserted that except
for few minor operations which are
performed by DR.. Judd, Dr. Charles
Mayos assistant, no operation has
ever been performed in st. Mary's hos
pital except by Mayo.
The Operating Rooms.
There are two large operating
rooms, with marble floors and marble
walls, big windows giving a north
light as well as large sky lights which
give a light from directly overhead.
The two rooms are only separated by
small storage room where assistants
are constantly at work sterilizing in
struments during the hours of opera
ton. When both the surgeons are at
| home each works in his own room, but
when either is away, as was the case
when this writer was on the table, then
| the other Mayo alternates his time be-
tween the two rooms, the anaesthetic
being given to the next patient in one
| room while the surgeon is taking care
of the last one, in the other DR..
Charles Mayo performed fourteen OPP
erations the morning spoken Of COM
mencing at in the morning and
working until l in the afternoon.
From ten to twenty-one operations are
performed every day in the year ex-
cept Sundays by these two wonderful
surgeons, more than in any other hos
pital in the United States, not except
ing the great Johns Hopkins hospital,
and the percentage of loss is the low
est of any in the world.
A Luxurious Jag.
Having been agreeably surprised at
the ease of the treatment he had re-
ceived thus far, the patient mounted
the operating table in good strength
and with every confidence that he