Surgeons and Doctors.
In Franca surgeona like to manufacture little pleasantries to show the uncertainties of medicine, and the doctors delight in doing the same thing for surgery. The doctors are now telling the following : — The viotim of an explosion was pierced through and through by an iron drill. The surgeon felt his pulse. " You are wounded, Bir," said he ; you have fever." "I know I'm wounded," said the patient ; " I've three feet of iron in my stomach." "Do these accidents often happen in your family ? " " Not very often." " Have you ever had such a trouble before ? " " First time I ever had it." "It must embarrass you to lie upon your back." " Yes sir." And upou your stomach." " Very much so." " You would be easier on your side." " Yes, slightly." " Very well. You have a drill through your body ; two courses are open to you— leave the drill where it is and die of inflammation, or extract it and bleed to death. Science will do its beat, but you must choose for yourself and take the responsibility as to your life ; all of our patients do that."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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187Surgeons and Doctors. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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