Show I FROST BITES CAUSE GANGRENE Philadelphia North American Despite the assurance In the official report of ot Commander Pear Peary's s condition condition condi condl- tion don given gi out Thursday that he hc was making favorable Cu progress much apprehension apprehension ap ap- ap preben lon is felt for or the famous explorer explorer ex ex- among Philadelphia physicians who have ha had experience Ith severe frost-bite frost cases Frost bite bUe is a most In insidious affliction afflic tion said a a. Walnut street physician yesterday You think you O l have it cured and then next nE year ear you discover that you were ml ken From what I 1 Ican Ican can learn Mr Ir Pe Peary's rys ry's case must be a sev severe re one His constitution cannot be particularly rugged rugged after the hardships hardships hardships hard hard- ships he has gone through He has had his feet frost bitten not once but several eral times and he Is constantly re returning rc- rc turning to climates where the is likely to make itself itsel apparent again The rhe doctor took a volume Is Grosss Gross's System of or Surgery from the library and nd read as follows Gangrene is spore more frequently a primary primary primary mary than a se secondary effect of or frost bite In persons of weak constitution and in the more remote parts of the thc body where the circulation Is naturally very feeble and languid it often orten spreads sNeads to a considerable extent butin but in general Its tendency Is to limit Itself Itsell to a small sinai space When considerable erable It may Invade all an the component tissues tissues tissues sues of a n. limb the hones bones and Joints as aswell aswell well uell as the soft sort parts It mn may last for foi forman man many years cars alternately disappearing and recurring under the slightest local loca and constitutional changes Atmospheric Atmospheric Atmospheric Atmos Atmos- vl vicissitudes generally exercise a marked markel Influence upon these a attacks the patient being often oCten a l complete barometer a combination of or cold anc and moisture is particularly particular pr prejudicial During the dr dry weather of oC summer the disease not Infrequently Infrequent goes oft off spon spon- but It Is sure to return on the approach of oC winter Amputation is refrained from until there Is a well- well marked line of oC and even then the surgeon burgeon should hesitate if the system is not In a healthy condition asserts that most operations of this kind performed In the Crimea on account of frost bite were C easeful I. I Thus jou ou 5 see sec e. e continued the thc dge- dge tor tar that Mr Pear Peary Is really suffering train from gangrene and er e every one kno knows s what a serious thing thinS gangrene in an any form is The patient is In good hands but I should think there were grounds for Cor anxiety |