PROFESSIONAL HEROISM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 593, 29 August 1873, Page 3

PROFESSIONAL HEROISM.

We read in the Ohio Clinic the following instance where the instincts of the physician for the welfare of the injured were subordinate to the instincts for the preservation of his own life. A night passenger \ ion the Louisville and Nashville Railway was precipitated down an embankment. and subsequent destruction of the train by fire.. Dr. D. M. Wihh’e was asleep in the second berth from the rear of a’ e sleep'ng coach, and Mr. Peter Fox was in the birth next in front. Dr. Wihble’s first knowledge of the fact that anything was wrong was on being waked up by the overturning of the coach, which rolle 1 over the side on -which he lay. His position convinced him that so mething was wrong ; anil on trying to move, he found that he could not get out of his berth, Iming held in by the wreck piled around him. A minute or two vdapsed when he heard some one cry out, “i am bleeding to death!" Unable to got out to assist the sufferer, the instinct of the physician would not bo confined, though his body was, and he called to the person who had made the cry, asking him where he was hurt. “My leg is crushed,” was the reply. “ Then press your fingers with all your force in the bol. low of your knee, and hold them there till I come,” was the instruction of the physician. In the meantime all was dark ; and after some minutes had elapsed the cry of fire was heard. This .was a terrible sound to the imprisoned passengers. Lights flashed in through the windows of the car, and thinking it was the flames breaking out near them, the physician called out loudly to “ put out the fire!" A gentleman from Atalmita, who slept opposite to Dr. Wibble, and who had been thrown against Lis berth by the accident, was able to move about, and succeeded in partially releasing the physian, who told him to tear a sheet into strips, fold one of the strips into a hard lump, and p-ess it into the hollow of the wounded man’s knee, whom by this time Dr. \V ibble recognised as Mr. Fox. The Atlanta passenger having pulled away some of the debris piled upon the physician, the latter got sufficiently free to bandage Mr. Fox’s logs so as to stop the flow of blood. They waited ; it seemed, a long time, though in the confusion and anxiety it may have been only a few minutes, when two persons pot hold of Mr. Fox, and pulled him out of his position, and out of the door of the car. He was immediately carried to toe house of a Mr. Owel, who lived not far from the scene of the accident, and every possible attention was paid to him. The Atlanta man made his way through a window in the upper side of the car, and Dr. Wibble, after some difficulty, got nut of the door. He was dressed only in his night-clothes, and stood with his hare feet in the snow until some one throw hima pillow to’stand on. He afterwards got a stocking, a blanket, Mr. Fox’s coat, and his own cloak, with which he kept himself from suffering from the intense cold. Efforts were made to find his clothes, hut in .vain, and he soon followed a guide up a steep and shpperj hill, and finding Mr. Fox, amputated his limb.

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