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Show COIR r PKOC EE DINGS. Third DL-trict Cturt, McKeaa, C. J., presiding. Friday, Apri! 25. J:nne ct. Andron, M. if.; Dr. J. M. lieaeJict aj;ain lock the &uni The witncjs hai srxe tried the appli-'ati-jQ of pu:l-:ys to draw the flesh-over a projj--e:ing Uco, and failed entirely; there are two ctj-.-cti jns to the pulley practice; on-: h, it i- Lot g-Lnenliy sue-c:-if'al; the oihur it, the stamp would be a eotiicil one, ati there! jrc not of -rvice to the patient; in ciaes where anjpu'.atiun hn rrt:Q rendered neces-ary neces-ary by mortiii'-'aticn, the puiiey prae-Uce prae-Uce is sometimes rtorted to, but is not eood practice, for the reason that it wuu.d ut::f probably cause gangrene, and nuar tvi.?; witness Wou-d not bandage such a biuoip, aa it woud be puttiLg too n.uch prepare on the parts. Cross-examined. It wjuld depend upon the circa instances in particular ca-v;9, as to how cloe witness woud put the stitches or the adhesive straps; atitcLe do not necessarily irma'.e; in the ca-.e at bar, witness couid not tell, from the description given, whether the flcrh at j'.he amputation waa good or bad; in such cases the Burgeon Bur-geon operating would have to twe his own judgment, and is often deceived; if a brui-e were euperlicial, the part would turn dark at onee; but if an injury in-jury were done to the soft parts more remote from the skin, and nearer the oentre of the limb, lrjm three to four days wou;d elapse before there would bt any di'coiuiation of the akin, which ffoul 1 then be a greenish yellow, and ; wuuid, il it went to a healthy termina-, termina-, tion, gradually fade out; mortilication irom a bruise wjuid be black; the next I .-hade would be dark, with a degree oi educ;s; inort.liealioo itself is not pro-yrcaaive; pro-yrcaaive; there is that whici precedes it, however, and leaves mortiti cation; the fctrcaks that extend off from the dead part are not mortification ; the discolored streaks are very daDger-,u?, daDger-,u?, but ttui they are not dead, and where there is lite there is not mortification mortifi-cation ; witness would not give ano-dni-fl telore and after the amputation, Oucauso it wuu.d bu cubjecting the piiiicQt to too many dangerous shocks; p aiuuu a counsel ascu Dimcusu uue Jusc of morphine was good, would not two be better; witness answered by tell-iLg tell-iLg the story of the old lady, who said it one pill would do good more would do mre good, and thereupon took the entire box; unfortunately the lady never lived to see tho good they did; Using the pulleys is not tho general practice; witness never saw it used but once to draw the tlesb over a bone that projected after an amputation, and that time it fai'ed; witness sometimes experiments with patients where be has good reasons lor doing so; has read nearly all of the standard work in the prolession, but never knew that the pulley was recommeoded lor pulling tho Maps over a stump; witness would apply cold water to constrict tho arterial arter-ial capillaries, and prevent the flow of iho b!oud, which caused tho inflammation, inflam-mation, and which, in its turn, caused one mortification; in the caee given, rather than build up the patient's strength, the surgeon should do the opposite C'jurso, uod would reduce the patient with cold water; witness has amputated six or eight legs and has oeen successful; mortitication never supervened after an amputation that he made. Jr. Allen Fowler sworn for the defendant. de-fendant. Is a physician and surgeon; graduated in ISiT, from the university of Maryland; has been in active practice prac-tice since lb 60; had great opportunities during the late war, lor practicing surgery; sur-gery; was in a military hospital five years; practiced fivo years in Utah, f no witness said that ho had heard tho testimony of Dr. Benedict, and he fu:ly concurred with him, in all of his answers, concerning the oold water treatment and tho poultices; it made 00 diiferenco as . to tho number of -tiiclies or strips that wore usea in closing clos-ing iho wound. Defendant closed his testimony. Tho plaintiffs then recalled several of their witnesses to rebut testimony given by defendant's witnesses, but no evidence of importance was contradicted, contradict-ed, aod tho testimony in the ease was olosed. Tho court then gave tho jury tho usual instructions, about not conversing with outside purtics about tho caso, and discharged them until .Monday, when tho attorneys will make their arguments. ar-guments. Court adjouriici to Monday at 10 o'clock a.m. |