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Show WONDERFUL NERVE. A. Iilan Who Looked on Calmly While the Surgeons Cut Off His Foot. Thomas E. Byrnes, a molder, had a portion of his right foot crushed by being be-ing run over by a Lake Roland car yesterday yes-terday morning, which necessitated the amputation of about one-half of the foot During the amputation Byrnes gave one of the most stolid exhibitions of nerve and impassiveness to pain ever witnessed. witness-ed. Drs. R- F. Blake and Geor made preparations to put their patient under the influence of chloroform for this purpose, pur-pose, but when Byrnes was informed of what they were about to do ho amazed them by telling them to go ahead with the cutting, but that he didn't want a narcotic. The physicians feared he couldn't stand it, robust as he is, and plainly told aim so, but Byrnes was firm and said he would get through it all right Then the surgeons proceeded as gen tly as possible. Tho pain must have been terrible. Just imagine taking a knife and sinking it down into the flesh, severing sever-ing bones and joints! "It's enough to make one shudder, " said a bystander, a surgeon, too, accustomed to the horrors of a surgical hospital. But Byrnes never even winced. He sat in the chair with folded arms, braced himself against the back of the seat and watched the movements move-ments of the knife. . There was no mon, no rolling of tho eyes, no twitching absolutely no indication of the terrible pain except the pallor of his face. The operation over, Byrnes thanked the surgeons, sur-geons, who seemed to be far more concerned con-cerned and anxious that the job come to an end than the heroic patient. Bal Cimore America! |