Show great SUP surgeon geon was R blunts stones told of the famous physician who attended ident MCKI mckinley nICY in the last scenes of the buffalo tragedy dr herman the well known buffalo surgeon who died recently was noted for his short replies and for the frankness with which he pleated patients I 1 think you ou are going to die he would say to a patient on whom he was about to operate however we shall see hospital nurses in such cases had to be ready to whisper encouragingly to the patients don t mind dr myn ter he always tells you the worst one day the doctor s telephone rang and over the wire came the voice of a woman who had picked out the wrong number hello Is this miller the baker she asked no madame replied the surgeon this is the butcher dr was the most interesting witness at the trial of czolgosz for killing president mckinley he called a spade a spade and his examination by the defence brought out the tact fact that he bad had never been too sanguine of the presidents chances during the fateful week he never voiced his apprehension and was loyal in sup port of dr mann and the other sur geons I 1 it was dr mann who wielded the knife at the exposition hospital and dr was beside him giving his advice dr might have been the oper operator ator but he believed that dr mann was a better abdominal sur our geon than himself dr was courteous to most of the newspaper men about the mil burn bouse house where mr mckinley died but one day he paused on his way to his carriage to pay his respects to the yellow fellows who were sending out absolute fakes you will grant he said with his danish accent that it Is impolite to ignore truth when it meets you face to face surprise your readers tor for one day by being truthful accurate and above all national it was dr who recalled after the presidents death that only one ruler had ever survived a bullet wound that one was william the silent who in 1580 was shot in the jugular vein at the instance of philip II 11 A surgeon held a finger on the wound for three weeks william re covered but four years later was shot in the abdomen by balthazar gerard and died |