Show AWFUL DOSE CURES SULTAN Directions of the American Surgeon Are Are Slightly Misunderstood d. d This actually happened in Mind Mindanao nao The story was told to me by the army surgeon himself He Ile was seated in his tent one morning morning morn morning morn morn- ing when a number of t the e follow followers rs of the sultan sulta of f Pant r came lo to him saying the sultan was dying of t cholera Aided by the slight knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge he then h had d of ot their their language th the surgeon diagnosed th this the case base ir rep rep reports its as s a well nigh hopeless on one ones ones' SI Still p ap anxious pi i Ious u tc to to h the skill and fl en lih lines s of f the Ame American for fOit the thE Moro brother he hastily hasUly made up Sim six powders each containing one of a grain of morphine and grains ina of bismuth These he g gave ave to the emissaries telling them to give the s 's t one of them in a glass ofed of- of ed water water- every three hours and to toa a r p ort Vt rt to l him im ext m morning r h how w th the patient nt was ln along t t- 1 i iThe The next mir 1 ithie e sur surgeon q t was as asmore more than surprised to see the sultan himself walk into into- the ten tent W Wan n an and weak as he was he had come some some f ht miles to thank th the the- s surgeon p personally per per per- r son Uy for having saved his bis life a and d bad Lad brought with him on one of his of-his his subjects sub sub sub- who spoke Spanish well wen enough gh to serve as an interpreter It was through the interpreter ter that the the- surgeon learned how his directions had been followed First Firsti b Y had given the entire six powders powders' t fo the sultan at on dose dose dose-a a full grain of morphine and IS grains of bisI bis- bis and muth-and I and then had had rhad poured a t tumbler tumbler tum tum- m- m bler full fun of boiling water into him every three e hours afterward scalding his mouth and throat so that lie he could scarcely scarcely speak But it cured him and the surgeon says the same treatment r ct many many another Moro who would pr probably have have died under tinder r less lesser r doses Broo Brook Brooklyn lyn Eagle f |