Deseret Evening News | 1898-05-07 | Page 10 | A Surgeon's Sang Froid

A Surgeons Sang Froid Dr Jules Pean the celebrated French surgeon who died In I arls the other day was a man of some peculiar hot Its as well as of many brilliant Quail ties One of the former was his cMtom of appearing at his clinics dressed ai for a dinner party wearing a cutaway coat bearing his ribbon of the Leirlon ot Honor white open waistcoat black trousers and patent leather boot The man for frold which he displayed unll performing the most difficult and dell eat operations was wonderful MI would talk Incessantly but never km tated for an Instant and It Is said hey er made a mistake He made many discoveries In Ihe domain do-main of operative surgery of the filch cst practical value His method offil venting hemorrhage by clamps was the discovery In which ho himself took the most pride He Bcrvel for Z 0 learn as the chief Burgeon at the Et Denis al and his lecture hospital then = sere altended by crowds of students from all part of the world An Fngliih countess count-ess once paid him 5000 for a single operation op-eration and his Income was said to be about 200000 a year Court chaplains when tiny rms before the German emperor Pant coa dense the sermons go that they it he delivered In 1C minutes Lent tmaQni he says make him weary