The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-11-14
WHAT is THE MATTER
WITH PRES. WILSON?
(By DIR. B. L. WARD.)

NV w IAAS AAOLuJ DuL SIupLOJ Gu q
PHYSICIAN, anu Asa Sept witn MS
IaLneIs.
IL as to be hoped that the array Of
meulcal sXpefts nIaISEa4teI around
the lAlvalrd eoucn OF Inr. Nlison, may
not JusCiIy Lne appI ensnsaon uiac,
ike uarne4d and A1chIn-ey, ne might
follow IN the footsteps OF Asa ana
sleep with ms Iatners.
GarIeld was attended constantly
by very eminent surgeons. Iney IN
trouuced PROBE InCo the orince OF
entrance MADE by the bal ana past
1T downward ana forward fourteen
inches INTO the abdominal cavity,
thinking they were following the
channei maze by the baa. Iney thus
introduced an infection, whlcn
created a perltonltls, and established
pus cavity, winch would have nllea
HIM II the wound mad not.
Ihe autopsy, however, revealed
the startling Iact that the bail had
gone IN the opposite direction ami
had never enUered the abdominal
cavity nor touching a vital organ,
but mad passed through the musc.es
OF the back, cut groove IN one OF
did not wound the spinal cord and
lodged in the muscle on the opposite
side OF the back.
1t was an awful mistake, and if his
attendant had been a country doc
tor he might have been liable to suit
for malpractice, but as they were
distinguished men, it was quietly
covered up for the credit of Amen-
can surgery.
If Garfield had been a Confede-
rate soldier he would have been laid
on blanket, gwen morphine
enough to keep him from suffering,
and being thus LETT to the heanng
process of Nature, might possibly
have recovered.
President Davis once told me
that when he was Secretary of Wal
in Mr., Pierce's Cabinet, he fell into
very bad heath, and failed to get
relief from the ablest physicians in
Washington. Mr.. Davis said, as he
always did when seriously in need CT
medical aid he applied to his old
friend, DR.. Samuel Cartwright, of
New Dreams, and asked him for a
prescription DR.. Cartwright, in
stead of prescribing for HIM. advised
him to leave Washington, go down
into Virginia, secure board with
some country gentleman, and tell
him, that for personal reasons, he
wished to have his identity concealed,
and after few days request his
host to call his family physician. He
followed instructions, and when the
Doctor came Mr.. Davis was introduce
ed to him under an assumed name.
The Doctor examined him and gave
him simple prescription, which
soon relieved HIM. DIR. Cartwright
evidently suspected that the city
doctors We're treating the Secretary
of War instead of the human man
Jefferson Davis, and were probably
acting on the absurd idea that such
distinguished man required some
medication of more refined . and
delicate quality than would be indi-
Gated for common man.
Now, we hope that the eminent
experts, who have charge of MIR.
Wilson, will not commit the error Of
treating the President of the United
States instead of the elderly school
teacher, Woodrow Wilson
Like Asa, Mr.. Wilson is a sick
man. He has "neurasthenia, which
means exhausted nerve force,
IN somewhat aggravated
form, for the reason that
whi.e it is the product of exhausted
nerve force induced by prolonged,
intensive mental activity, yet it is
based upon congential weakness, or
hereditary tendency to that peculiar
type of neurotic trouble. In other
words, while his cerebral soil is rich
and fertile on the surface, it is a
superficial soil, and readily exhaust.
ed if too intensely cultivated and
overworked
Physicians are beginning to under
stand that the brain does not func-
ton as one solid, uniform, homo.
geneous mass, but is divided and
sub-diyided into almost innumerable
groups or clusters of brain cells, and
that each one of these little clumps OF
cells has its own peculiar function
while they are al connected with each
other by little fibres, or threads OF
gray matter acting like telegraph
wires, conveying impressions from
one to the other, thus preserving the
harmony and cooperation of the
tnougnt-produclng machinery. Fol
instance, four small and separate
clumps of cells furnish US the re.
spective senses of sight, hearing
taste and smell. Another small
separate and distinct clump of cells
said by anatomists to be about the
size of hazelnut, and called Broca's
convolution, located just above anC
behind the left eye, furnishes us with
all ideas and conceptions of language
and all capacity to comprehend OF
employ words to convey impressions
If this little group of cells should bs
destroyed by disease or accident
without injury to any other part Of
the brain, while the individual would
in other respects, be perfectly nor
NAL, yet he would never again hare
the slightest conception of. the use
or meaning of words.
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