The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-12
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HIS Own Surgeon.

OF course. amazing things are con-
tinuaIIy happening In the world of
medicine and surgery. But here are
few cases that are queer indeed. A
ClarkfieId. Mimi, physician, driven TO
desperation by pain and his failure to
! ind a surgeon who could relieve him
OF growth that threatened to de-
stroy his iawbone. stood before a mir
ror N his office. made an incision lust
below his left jaw, cut away the flesh
rom the point Of the chin almost to
the left ear. scraped the bone and
then seWed up the wound. He was
AIDED only by nurse, who was the
nrst 10 give way under the strain.
In a paper read before a medica,
society IN Chicago physician advo-
Gated the taking of tucks In the mus
cles that control the ball of the eve.
as a means of Strengthening cross
eyes For years. doctors have been
shipping the muscles with small
shears; but this physician maintained
that by tightening up the muscle on
the other side of the cross-eye. much
as man tightens one suspender, the
cure would be effected.
From Berlin. last March, came the
story of queer find in the abdomen
of brewers drayman. He went to
hospital suffering from severe pains
In his abdomen and Rontgen rays re-
veaied the presence Of foreign body
inside him An incision revealed a
pair of artery forceps which must
have been left there at one OF two pre-
vious operations held, respectively.
seven and three years before. For
the shorter period. at least. the man
had been doing his heavy work with
this instrument in his abdominal cav
ity
Many people make strange wills. A
Berkley. Cal. widow who died last
July took queer measures to insure
past all doubt that neither she nor
her pet animals would be buried alive
She wilied that her heart be cut out
within twenty hours after the
time she was declared dead and her
body held seven days before burial.
Also. that her pet animals be chloro-
formed within twenty-four hours of
her death and their bodies held under
water for the same length OF time.
Gave Himself Up.
Crime is ever an Interesting sph.
/ ject. And all the more so when Soma
] thing freakish in nature Is unearthed
Last March a Columbus, O.. man. In
dicted and convicted of blackmai, an.
I Feared before a q. S. District JutIea
and begged to be given the punish
ment to avoid which he had bean !
fugitive for ten years While ou. m
| bail he had fed the country. thus es-
Gaping thirteen months imprison-
ment- Though he had changed his
name and had prospered in fore;pn
land. his conscience troubled hf,n :,
persistently that he was com neIIea -
return and ask to be sent to iaii -
serve out his sentence.
Last April in PhiladeInb,a 80
trial was granted in o CONNER nIss :
court during the hearing of an eject
ment suit, when it was discovered ~ !,
/ one OF the jurors was a deaf mufa
How he became member of the ,,,ry
and why ne sat through the trial nm.
able TO hear word of the evidence
or to speak, was a mystery which mo
one seemed able to explain.
OBVIOUSLY, burglar is not an hon.
est man. And yet, an honest bur.
giarA appeared in Detroit. Mich. las,
April. when he found s1s in a ieweI.
case on the dresser of a home he had
broken into and took but 50 of Il
Moreover. he left note which read
Thanks. lady. I was hungry SO
took the two dollars
! Left Empty landed.
An even '"more honest burglar was
the one who entered house in Cali
fornia, Pa, found child's toy bank
containing thirty dollars Across the
top of the bank was printed the
phrase I'm God We Trust" The bur-
glar left the bank untouched: in fact
he left the house empty handed. But
under the inscription he scrubbed
so did I--once."
Every year has its instances OF pre-
1 cocious children. Here Is one fol-
/ 1913. From England comes the story
| Of blacksmith who is four years
and two months old Every day after
school he helps his father in his
blacksmith's shop not far from GIas-