A SAVAGE PREJUDICE.
Scuta eon-Major E. Lawrie, in his report on medical administration in the dominions of the Nizam, during 1887, gives a curious instance of the strength of the prejudice against amputation of a limb which survives among semi-civilised people. A native was severely bitten in the foot by a tiger, and after an attempt to save the foot had been made, the patient consented to amputation, but his friends objected that he would be of no use without a foot, and that they would rather he should die. "As the patient was old enough," writes Dr. Lawrie, " to judge for himself, I turned the friends out of the hospital and took the foot off. They returned, armed to the teeth, after the operation was completed, and, if it had not been for a very strong guard, would certainly have attacked us. Being foiled in this, they entirely deserted the man, whose foot had been amputated. We were obliged to keep him in the hospital for months, as he could get no food outside, and if his Highness the Nizam had not taken him into his service be would havo been there still, or died of starvation," —British Medical.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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200A SAVAGE PREJUDICE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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