| Show the uncertainty of doctors oliver IV holmes hoimes in a lecture upon physicians gives the following accounts of some mistakes which have been made in medicine sooner or later everybody is tripped up in forming a di diagnosis la if DOSIS I 1 baw saw velpeau tie one of the carot barot carotid ar armories arteries tories for a supposed which was only a little harmless tumor and killed his patient mr pease dease of dublin was more fortunate in a base case be he boldly declared an abscess while others thought it an ile ha thrust a lance into it and proved himself richt right soon after he made a similar diagnosis ile he thrust in his lancet as before and out gushed his patients blood and his life with it the next morning mr dease found him dead floating in his blood he had divided the femoral artery I 1 have doomed people and seen others doom them over and over again on the strength of physical signs and and th they have lived in tre the most contumacious scientifically ulily unjustifiable manner as long as they lived jived and some bome are living still Is I 1 see ee tw two 0 men in the street very often who were both aa as good aa as dead in the opinion of all who saw them in their extremity people will insist on living sometimes though manifestly moribund in dr elders life of kane you will win find a story of this sort told by dr kane himself the captain of a ship was dying of scurvy but the crew mutinied mutinies muti nied and lie he gave up dying dyl for the present to take care of them an ali ol 01 old oid DI lady in this city near her end got a little vexed at a proposed change in her will made mad u up p her mind not to die just then ordered a c coach was driven twenty miles to the house bouse 0 f a relative and lived for four years longer cotton mather tells some good stories which he be picked up in his bis experience or out of his bia books showing the unstable equilibrium of prognosis simon stone was shot in nine places and as lie he lay lav for dead the indiana made two hacks with a hatchet to cut his bis head off he got well however bo wever and was wag a lusty fellow in cotton mathers mathera time jabez hil hll Mlis mils M grave was shot with a bullet that his hig ear and came out of his eye on the other side jabez got well weil wells however and lived jived many years per contra col Ros ross rossiter ifer sifer cracking a plum stone with his teeth broke a tooth I 1 and lost his life we have bare seen physicians g dying like Spi gelus relus elus eJus from a scratch and a 1 1 man wh who 0 had bad ha d a crowbar shot through his ilia head ia is alive 1 ive lve and d well weil ell eil these extreme cases are warnings but vou you you never can call be too cautious in your pro prognosis in view of the great uncertainty of the tn course of any disease not long watched hed and the many unexpected turns it may take in greenwood cemetery there have been interred since september bbb 1840 when the first body was placed in the ground in that place liace ilace up to june oth 1860 seventy six thousand seven hundred and ninety seven persons persona mr airon eaton of southampton mass aged 92 years the oldest person in that town own it is said was in the field mowing mowing thia this n year rear aana and did what would be 4 a fair days daya work for or half i if the hired men I 1 the the french papers have published the pro ro gramme of the great paris art exhibition to 0 o be held heid in 1861 the exhibition is to take ilice from the of mayto may to the of july and ind artists of all nations painters sculptors architects engravers are admitted no artist however is allowed to exhibit more than four our works the objects for exhibition must be sent between the of march and of april 1861 besides a great medal of smaller medals of 1500 and will be ie awarded painting alone is to be honored with 21 medals an official return shows that in spain there are now miles of railway open for tramm traffic moi iCi in course of erection and alili conceded A german paper says that there arr are thirty seven hun hungarian arian arlan officers serving under garibaldi one half of whom went ex expressly r essiy essly from hungary to italy the remainder t having a ving been emigrants one thousand men are employed in the united states in the manufacture of se sewing wing machine needles profits on them then amount to nearly a year since be introduction of the thi th sang machine this I 1 saie sate V of spool cotton has increased inc i eased to th a extent 0 of mole more than a milli a half annually i f S a ri V |
