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If a bull chases you

it's only his fear complex

By CHAPMAN PINCHER T'S a new hobby

-

bull-

I watching. ploneer

is Mr Andrew Fraser,

"paycho- to find

a

UNHAPPY BULL

os Artie sees him.

EMERGENCY OP.

DRAWN BY

ROBB

AND EXPORTED BY

MERRICK WINN

Chapter Two of the story that brings you right up close in the world of modern surgery

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• THE CHIEF saw shadow in Sarah's greying face, and the shadow said: "Heads I win and tails you Jose."

So death often speaks to the surgeon; so it spoke now to the Chief.

If he operated at once he might kill her. If he did not she might die.

Which to do? It is the right decision, not only the nimble fingers, which marks the great surgeon.

At this moment

an

In

ROBB takes you into the storilising room before the operation. In the foreground the theatre sistor

arrangos Instrument trolley, her pocket is the only kay to a cupboard in the theatre marked D.D.- dangerous druga. Noto tho half-length whito rubber boots the student nurse floft) and staff -nurse wear,

TOMORROW

Enter the anaesthetist. key man

to success

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infection

not all doctors have heard penicillin or streptomycin, the news, that one of the light the murderous things you must NOT do is which by now was threatening give

the patient extra warmth.

Research, chiefly at the Birmingham Accident Hos pital, has shown it may be dangerous, even fatal.

her whole body.

Then she had all the things done to her that must be dong

before a major operation, things which seem undignified only to

the healthy....

Things like having iba stomach emptied by passing a So Surah was not given thin tube down through the the hot-water bottles, the nose. This was vital. Had, Sarah would vomited with anything in her electric blanket she

she might have or slomoch have been given a year two ago. Just the normal choked and died, bedclothes.

thers

The tube was to stay through the operation and for She was given too -3 several days afterwards, It glucose and saline drip: sounds more unpleasant than it called drip because it does is.

drip from a bottle above her

hend through o thin tube Meanwhile, the theatre staff, direct into a vein in her arm. consisting of theatre sister, two

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This was much the some as blood transfusion, The glucose gave her strength, and kaline (salt and water) sup- plied vital blood constituents..

The rest of the preparation was normal routine for any emergency operation; a routine which always taias nearly an huur, a vital hour, and cannot be hurried.

But to the layman everything about an operation seems un- hurrled, even lelaurely. Nu glamour, no heroles, not much drarna.

Theso Bre quito ordinary men and women whose job is to meet death with casualness and reject it when they can. A job like any other job, al-

most. Impersonal, because it must be

In the theatre

staff nurses, and two student nurses, were preparing the operating theatre,

They aterilista instruments, boiling all but the scalpels and scissors. These were put into an antiseptic fuld because bolling would blunt them.

The Chief acts

surgeon has only a fow basic instruments but cach has so many variations at least 24 kinds of scissors that he ends up with scores.

So the nurses

now needed five trolleys to lay them out, Sculpets (with detachable blades), forceps, retractors, clamps, nevates and 360 tubes of eatgut (but not all for Sarah).

Another hour was gone. The Chlef came again to Sarah and

Не важ he saw three things. she was less shocked and tho

The trouble was shock, medical shock, a condition that kills. The heart races, the breathing hunts, and little beads of sweat mist the cold and clammy skin.

THE

HE Hollywood version is poisoning was far advanced There is always some shock with any acute condi- please, Sister." "Don't let her tion. But severe shock is chin drop, Nurse." "Steady said, "We mustn't wait longer.” almost total collapse. The that trolley, Nurse," body gives up trying, and this is nearly the worst that can happen...

and he saw that if he did not false,

the romance Is Fiction. “Pass; H10

operato now she would do, syringe, MA:

This is the

the stuff

that mayce live This the routine and the unspectacular plodding, was what maltered now in the bid to save Surah.

Another hour had already

was

It had happened to Sarah. Her life depended on an 'gone. The Chier looked down operation her body could again at Sarah, felt the feeble, not yet stand. Said the Auttering pulse arid exchanged

a glance with the registrar. Chief: "We'll have to walt Scottish veterinary surgeon

Jan hour-maybe two."

They said nothing. But their look meant

this: Time who hús been

Two hours it was. Two getting very, very short. analysing" bulls

And the routine went on. hours in which doctors and Not so many years ago Garsh what makes them savage. going through some automatic nurses treated Sarah for would have

And after two years of steady motions while its mental con- shock, and meanwhile, pre- anesthetic and no more, Now been given an bull-watching he has decided flict resolves into a decision to that bulls which attack people charge or run away. are not really evil-minded, bui are Buffering from an "anxiety neurosis."

This neurosis is due to an "unresolved conflict" between sex and authority. The bull wants to be undisputed king of the cows, but has to submit to being bossed,by the cowman.

"This sets up a "fear complex" of the type described by Dr Sigmund Freud in human patients, Mr Froser befloves,

pared for the operation.

Wou

che was given a whack of drugs which, had she not been

BO

The long wait dangerously ill, would have

AVERY medical and first-

timo of waiting actually pleasant

She was given on Injec

and Schopolamine) which

Some bulls, usually the most highly sexed, almost always charge. Others-like the fabled Ferdinand, who just wanted to alt peacefully under a tree always end up by running away.

Hl studies of 70 bulls Lanarkshire have shown that a bull always points one horn and says about shock in effect: pleasant une eye at an Intruder.

"Above all, apply extra feeling, and, afterwards, help warmth to the patient." tion

All wrong. It is now Sho was also given An established, so recently that injection of an

E aid tortools, including ton of two drugs (Omno-

in one I had a hand in myself, together kill pain, produce a couldn't - care « less

wipe out memory of the opera-

Sometimes its muscles boconie When a ball bellows and so rigid with emotion that they

it is simply are temporarily paralysed. paws the ground

antibiotic, like

"Now the bas a chance," he

Yes, she had a chance.

POCKET CARTOON. by OSBERT LANCASTER

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