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Show WONDERFUL NERVE. A Juan Who Looked on Calmly While the Surgeons Cut Off Ilia Foot. Thomas E. Byrnes, a molder, had a portion of his right foot crushed by being be-ing run ovT by a Lake Roland car yesterday yes-terday morning, which necessitated the amputation of about one-half of the foot. During the amputation Byrnes gava one of tho most stolid exhibitions of nerve and impassiveness to pain ever witnessed. witness-ed. Drs. R. F. Blake and Geer 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 abemt to do he 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 him so, but Byrnes was firm and said he Would get through it all right Then the surgeons proceeded as gently gen-tly as possible. The pain must have been terrible. Just imagine taking a knife and sinking it down into the flesh, severing sever-ing bones and joints 1 "It's enough to make one shudder, said a bystander, a surgeon, too, accustomed tc the horrors of a surgical hospital. But Byrnes never ever, winced. He sat in the chair with folded arms, braced himself against the back of the seat and watched the move merits of the knife. There was no moan, uo rolling of the 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 oxuore .amuncaife What He Needed. The man was melancholy, and when he called on the doctor for advice that artist thought he had his man sized up on the first turn. He told the doctor his symptoms, and the doctor asked a lot of Incidental questions. "How long have you been here?" inquired in-quired the physician f-iter finishing up the regular list "Much longer than I have wanted to be," replied the patient wearily. "That's it I thought so," exclaimed the doctor brightly. "What you need is a change of scene. " The patient threw up hiB hands as if to ward off a blow. "Oh, doctor," he wailed, "I belong to a theatrical company playing a reper tory of five act j.lays." Detroit Free Press. |