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THE SURGEON.

'SIR FREDERICK TREVES' BOOK OF REMINISCENCES,

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"The surgeon's hands must be delicate, but they must be strong. He nectis lacemaker's fingers and a seaman's ip He must have courage be quick to think and prompt to act, Le sure of captain of the venture ho commandy d He must know the human body na forester knows his wood; must know it ayen better than he, must know: the roots and branches of every tree, the source and wandering of every rivulet, the banks of every alley, the dosers of every ginele."

A SURGEON'S CASE BOOK.

In these striking phrases does Sir Frederiek Treves, the famous surgeon describe the qualifications of the skilled surgeon in his new book of Reminiscences Elephant Mats (Cassell, 75 6d, rebel The

Not to Africa, nor to Su

Switzerland, Dr. to France doca Sir Frederick go this time for his travels. But he turns over his old ease book,

ming reculls the bodies of men his and women. There are some tensely tragic things

in it. But the great thing to redem- ber is the greatness of the men--the famous surgeons and doctors who are suficiènt, for these and able to deal with them. And Sir Frederick is a very great man, and has had an amazing carrer. The world will never know some of the things he has done.

THE IDOL WITH NANDS OF CLAY,

A surgeon, he says, "may be a clever manipulator and get Iw mentally clumsy, He may even be brilliant, but heaven help the poor soul who has to be operated upon by a brilliant surgeon. Brilliancy is out of place in surgery.

These phrases introduce the tragic story of "The idol with Hands of Clay man who operated ex his wife on her own insistent request because she thought be was so brilliant. And when be bungled and she was dying

"A smile, radiant, grateful, adoring, illuminated bor, face, and a holent over her he hears her whisper- Wonderful boy."

A WILD-ZYED WOMAN..

A very moving story is told by Sir Frederick in his chapter on "Breaking the Nows." He recalls Sir William Jenner's statements of the essential in a medical man. "He needs three things. He must be honest, he must be dogmatic, and he must be kind.”

Sir Frederick then goes on to

"The most vivid displays of fooling that occur to my mind have been exhibited by mothers when the fate of a child is concern. ed. If her child be threatened a mother may become a

I remember one such instance. 1 was quietly interviewing a patient in my con- sulting room when the door suddenly flew open and there borst in-as if blown in

oman with a little girl fucked under her of wind-s gasping, wild-eyed arm like a puppy Without a word of in- troduction she exclaimed in a hoarse whisper,

He

wants to take her foot of This 541- den, unexplained lady was a a total Istranger to me. She had no appointment. 1 knew nothing of her. She might have droppen. from

the clouds. However, the elements of confusion and terror that she fu- Were SD

Moles into my placid room

explosive and disturbing that I begged my patient to excuse me and conducted, or rather impelled, the distraught lady into an other room.

“Incidentally I may remark that she was young and very pretty; but she was evidently quite oblivious of her looks, her complexion, her dress, or her many attractions. I had before noticed that when good-looking woman is unconscious of being good-looking there is a progress.

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"The wretched "man listened to my dia- course with apparent apathy, as if wonder- ing what all this talk could mean and what it had to do with him. When I had finished he said nothing, but rising quietly, from bis chair, walked over to one side of the room and looked at a picture hanging on the wall. He looked at it closely and then, stepping back, with his head on side,

crisis in At a few fect distant. Finally Ire

A BASTI BIHARK. "The story, which was told me in gasps and at white hout, was as follows. The child was a little girl of about three almost as pretty as her mother. She was the only child, and had developed tuberculoga disenso in one foot. The mother had taken the little thing to young surgeon who appears to have lot fall some rash remark 29 to taking the foot off. This

enough for

the

mother. She would not listen to another syllable. She, whom I came to know later as one of the sweetest and gentlest of women, changed nt the moment to a wild animal-a tigress.

Without a word the snatched up the baby nud bolted from the house, leaving the child's sock and shoe on the con- sulting-room floor. She had been given my name as a possible person to consolt, and had dashed off to my house, carrying the child through the streets with its bare foot and leg dangling in the sir.

"On being admitted she asked which was pointed out. to her, and without more ado ahe Sung berselfie

$5 have described. The delight. This dashing in and out of Rayabeaming with other people's houses and being carried through the streets Wigue & Bock or a shoe on her foot struck

was my room, It

child. I

and exciting game.

off

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The mother's fury against my surgical colleague was almost inexpressible. If the poor man had suggested cutting off the child's bead he could not have done, worso. How dare he!' she gaspod How dare be talk of cutting off her foot. If he had proposed to del. It would be nothing But to cut off her littlo this beautiful little foot, is a horror beyond words, and then look at the child, how sweet and wonderful she is! What wickedness!"

not

font I should

foot,

"It was a marvellous display of one of the primitive emotions of mankind, a picture, in bumaa guise, of a tigress defending her cub. By a happy good fortune, after many months and after not a few minor operations, the foot got well so that the glare in the eye of the tigrens died away and she remembered again that she was a pretty

woman."

BREAKING THE NEWS.

Sir Frederick, oa another occasion, had to tell the father of a beautiful girl-"his Øver delightful companion

and the joy and comfort of his life? --that her art must immediately be ame putated at the shoulder joint. The father had no suspicion of the gravity of the case. Sir Frederick had finally to make known to him the bare and ghastly truth with as much gentleness as I could command.”

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"Then turning suddenly to me, he burst oat: What were you talking about just now! You aid something. What was it? For God's sake say that it is not true! It is not true! It cannot be true!

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