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Show CRACKS JOKES WHILE HE WATCHES SURGEONS I SAWING OFF HIS LEG 4- NEW YORK. April 22. While 4. A two surgeons were cutting oft his 4 leg in Flower hospital yesterday, 4. 4 Edward McCabe, in full possesion , of his faculties, watched the op- i eratlon, and occaslonaly cracked 4 4. a joke with the men who were 4. wielding the knives. He felt no 4. A pain whatever. This is because 4- 4 the physicians pursued a most un-, 4. 4, usual method of operation. 4. 4 McCabe was struck by a Third 4. 4 avenue car Saturday and suffered 4 4 a compound fracture of the left 4 leg. At the Flower hospital it 4 4 wan found an amputation would 4 4 be I necessary. 4 4 It developed that McCabe's heart 4 4 action was too weak to permit 4 4 th4 administration of an anaes- A 4 thfltlc, and It was decided to apply 4. 4- a hypodermic injection of cocaine 4 4- yto 'the spinal column. JL 4 ' This produced what Is known as 4 4 aspinal anaesthesia of the lower 4 4- extremities, depriving' the patient 4. 4- of all sensation there." McCabe 4 4 hai a fair chapee of recovering. 4 -J 4.4.4.rf. 4. 4. 4. 4, |