Show UNDER KNIFE AT I 69 SCORNS ETHER ETHERI i Old Pop Parkers Parker's Display I of Nerve in Major Operation Operation Opera Opera- tion Amazes Surgeons n Br By The She Special pedal N N. N w nice the tho at attending attending at- at NEW EW YORK Feb 5 What 6 What tending surgeons regard as ono one ct of the gamest amest bits of nerve they ever had seen upon an operating table was ex- ex ex exhibited d when Old OM Pop Parker as heis heis he ho hois is known in the plant of Thomas A. A Edison in Orange N. N J J. where ho is ts isan isan tsan an engineer underwent a major operation operation operation opera opera- tion and refused to take ether He is doing well The operation n was a a 8 large incision in inthe inthe the abdomen and Drs Charles W W. I Banks and George Bangert of St. St Marys Mary's hospital Orange knew how painful it would be bo But when they mentioned to Parker who is 69 years old that tho they would soon have e the anaesthetic ready for him he ho dissented dissent dissent- ed cd vigorously IY Im too old for tor that sort of thing thins he told the physicians so I guess Ill I'll take it raw raw After a 11 consultation the doctors de decided decided decided de- de I that the patient knew know best about the tho condition of his nerves so they proceeded Throughout the tho operation I Parker chatted pleasantly with the tho doctors and the nurses I Just to pass the time away said I the patient in tho midst of or the operation opera opera- tion Ill tell teU you ou how I lost this right I arm of oC mine He held up the stub of ot his right arm and launched into a a. long account of tho the accident in which an engineer cut off his arm B By the time he had finished his story the surgeons Burgeons had finished Why hy didn't you OU toll tell us that before we sewed you up 7 asked Dr Banks s I We e could have havo saved sayed you the trouble by feeding you OU with a tube I No thank you replied the tho patient I haven't got the nerve to learn new tricks at my age And the nurses wondered Just what he ho meant by nerve |