Show he lived to tell his own story I 1 am reminded of a certain occasion when I 1 was cir clr carrielin carri rier edin fiato tomy my one cold november day in 1875 with a bullet hole through ah one of my lungs it was an ounce bli bal from a dueil duell duelling buelling du elling eiling ng pistol and as I 1 was borne through a frantic mob all the di d actors in that town seemed to s woop swoop down upon me A lea leat t ten 0 the gathered around my bedside and as I 1 lay with the wind wh whistling istl ing th through rough tough that wound I 1 instinctively estimated the chan chances cesal aa ten to one against me some of them were experienced army surge ons one whose professional opinion today would carry more weight to my m nd than he opinion of 14 surgeon argeo general barnes there was no probing for the ball because jl ji had been dug out of the fi Ei dewalk sidewalk and its pathway had been direct it was very simple of diagnosis dia dla nosia was that case and it t ike the dac doctors torso long iong Dg to cometo a conclusion this conclusion was that mat I 1 roust must die immediately and that my case was unquestionably hopeless mark yo i 1 here were ten unanimous doctors on the strength of this professional judgment it have ben bern no more then thin common courtesy for me to have turned y ya a e eto to the wall and stiffened ened but I 1 was always noted for being cont contrary iary and I 1 refused t tc do doit dolt it having scared my family into sickness by this death sentence a nd taken my postmortem post mortem before a justic ethe 10 doctors a asked whether I 1 had bad any pre preference ference ferente aa as to where I 1 should be buried and then sat gat down and waited there was one old sur geon however who said I 1 had one chance in 20 of recovery it is unnecessary to trace the case further than to eay say that in many respects it was attended with the ups and downs a relapse with rigor and ehlies chills etc etc ete aa as that thit th it which has marked the president but the stomach was sound it is for the purpose of illustrating the position tim of these 10 physicians who gave the premature opinion which almost sacrificed a wife and almost broke a mothers heart unnecessarily I have since written the obituary of t three of these doctors who were so an anxious to know where they should bury me and th eyvere good men and honest withal peace beto beuto their ashes but if I 1 have entertained strong symptoms of conf couf contempt em pt for professional opinions on such sueh matters I 1 think I 1 may be pardoned I 1 forgot to say and will therefore add right here liere that I 1 did not die cor vor I tomes times |