A SEPTUAGENARIAN SURGEON.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 789, 16 March 1871, Page 3

A SEPTUAGENARIAN SURGEON.

The following is from the " Lancet," of December 17 :—" In the terrible sortie of November the 30th, the most distinguished services to tho woi.nded were rendered by Dr. Uicord. Having established his head-quarters in a ruined hut, he awaited the arrival of the brancards with their unhappy freight. As each poor sufferer was brought in, he gently but rapidly relieved him of his clothes, dressed his wound, crapplied the splint to bis shattered limb, as the case might be, placed him on his shelf, and had him conveyed by ambulance waggon to the steamers wdiich were moored on the Marne, by Joinville As soon as the boat had taken in as many as it could hold, it steamed swiftly down stream to the bridge near the Bastille, whence the brancards bore the patients to the hospitals or to the private houses which had been prepared for their reception. For hours and hours Dr. Bioorcl continued thus to exert himself ; according to one eye-witness, he ' created amazement by his übiquity.' The doctor's seventieth birthday was on the 10th of this month: and, in the energy he displayed, he adds another to the list of able and vigorous septuagenarians on whose prolonged career of usefulness we lately commented.