Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-11-03

In an aISuS
-s,s another younth. There was
ant Young Lawles was stabbed ~
~ heart He was placed In an auto
,,ohile and brought several miles 70 .
hospital. This took minutes and mans
,-.c,ous ones. When the patient was
spally placed on the operating tspie
n was still conscious. SO staTtins
was the nature of the wound tna' 'ue
oldest internes paled when tney so"
~ extent Of the injury. T"eise
s.Itcbes were required to close the
s,sb through the heart muscles. Inc
patient lived. He was living when tne
sospital authorities heard from MIN
lazt and that was but short time
.,nce His chance Of life when ne
vas brought into the hospital were
Les than nothing. 1t was notable
c.se Of the fooling Of death.
Mem are hard to kill at times. Lit
~ Andrew Cerainto was accidentally
shot through the head. There was no
ADMIT that the ball had penetrated
ths brain tissue. No one expected the
chIid to live. Ten years ago death
would have been more than certain
But surgery. and especially brain sur
esry. has made long leaps In that time.
These leaps have been forward. When
death did not ensue the eager IN
tsrnes saw a chance TO save lie.
Tbey did. Little Andrew Ceramic
was discharged from the hospital a
few DAYS ago. He was apparently on
The road to a complete recovery In
spite Of the mutilated brain tissue
that was plowed by the heavy bullet
Death was tricked Of something tnat
seemed certainly his.
There Is wonderful vitality In most
human tissues. II does not want OF
intend TO die. It fights against disso-
luton with the inherited vigor that
may have come down through ten
thousand generations. In order 10
fool death the scientists have
learned TO take advantage of all these
things. They have trained the war
rior cells. the white blood corpuscies
to DO things for them.
Thirty-three years was once the ay
erage life Of man. Wars, famines ane
pestilences helped to cut down the
duration Of mans span. No one know:
now Just how long the average life
& any more. II is changing all thu
time by getting longer.
Death used TO reach out through
appendicitis and claim bis victims II
spite Of the best efforts Of the mai
who fought back at him with th'
scalpel. There was something wrong
This was remedied and the death rat
sank and continues to sink. The goo'
surgeon has fooled death so often il
appendicitis cases that It is no Ionge
looked upon as a particularly seriou
operation.
Before that time, In the days whel
the war hospitals we're deadly beyoD'
the telling. an operation Of any sor
In one Of these places was grave
They had not learned as yet how D
round up. slay and utterly destroy tn
pus germs that we're creeping every
where over the unsterilized beds al
planking. clinging to the clothing Q
the surgeon and floating In the no:
pital atmosphere. They do not exis
any more They are guarded agains
and watched by every attendant. OF
orator and inferno Of any hospital. Tn
death percentage from this cause ha
sunk low and is sinking lower It
an everyday instance of puzzling. ba
ding and fooling death.
II you love life you do well to b
living now. You have a better chanc
to see more Of It and live out NOR
years than you would have had II 20
had lived yesterday You will have
still better chance tomorrow. for som
scientist poking around with a micr'
scope may find something today tins
Win Increase the average life span
another decade. Some Metchnikoff
apt to 60 to step further and su
prise the secret Of living few veal
longer from outraged nature. Yc
have better chance to swindie deaf
out Of few years right now ths
you would had you lived In the da,
when germs we're unheard OF al
bleeding was the most sovereign rel
edy at the command of the healer.
Edward Schneider. a Hollander
middle age. went up on a smokesta'
% DO some painting He was workiI
" feet In the air when the scaffoldii
gave way. A rope. poorly fastene
let knot slip and he fell the fun
feet to the top Of a shed. and boun
ed thence to the ground. 1t was a ca