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Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital.
MAY,
the rectum. The following woodcut represents the size and shape of the calculus, a portion of the upper part being fractured off.
The patient sustained the operation with fortitude. In the evening he was very comfortable, his countenance was placid, complained a little of a sense of lameness from the restraint of the limbs during the operation, but to use his own expression, "felt light." He was re- minded that the favor he had obtained was from God, to which he seemed to yield a cordial assent.
Oct. 26th. The patient passed a comfortable night, Pulse 88. No fever, or local pain of consequence; good appetite, and the urine free from blood. He was visited by his mother, who seemed quite overjoyed, and was only prevented by force from knocking head at my feet, as she exclaimed "
have saved my son; you
thanks to the doctor, thanks to God our Heavenly Father." She had received her first correct knowledge of the latter by the religious instruction communicated at the Hospital.
Oct. 27th. Removed the canula from the wound, and changed the position of the patient from the left to the right side, when he express- ed himself as being more comfortable than previous to the operation. Oct. 28th. Pulse 84. Removed him from the operation table to his bed, and as the pulse was a little quickened, an ounce of oil was adminis- tered, and in the afternoon a more generous diet of rice and fish was allowed him.