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Show WATCHED SURGEONS AS THEY CUT OFF HIS LEG $ Uemarkablc Nerye Exhibited by Patient Operated Upon for Blood Poisoning. i ' ' ' ' JERSEY CITY,' N. J., May 13. Henry Nichols, a well-known member of the Jersey City club,' was taken to a hospital on Sunday suffering from blood poisoning, pois-oning, the result of an injury to his right leg. Later he was Informed that the leg must be amputated. The surgeons found that the action of Nichols' heart would not warrant the use of anaesthetics, and he was obliged to submit to the operation without them. After the leg had been amputated below the knee, it was found that gangrene extended above the knee and that a second operation would be necessary. The leg was then amputated at the thigh. Not once did the patient lose consciousness. conscious-ness. He talked with Dr. Dickinson while the leg was being removed, and when the operation was over he congratulated the physician. |