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Show Hno you obsened tho frequency with which the speclnltlcs of modern surgciy flguio In short stories? Time wns, you know, -when dcllcnto surgical opcintlons wero only discussed with solemn fnces and in voices kejed to a sombro pitch. But tho wrltcis of stnnll Action hn,vo brought about n change In tho popular estimate by Imagining all soits of operations tnklng plnco lu all sorts, of Imaginary surioundlngs. It Is hue they do not mnko light of any onu of tho fashlounble operations; they rather tako them for main incidents inci-dents as n rrcuns to exciting emotions and sentiments that could not bo aroused In any other wny. And then thoy glvo themselves n fico linnd lu describing theso sensntlons experienced by their chnrncters. But with this literary lit-erary treatment of tho thoino witnessed In ono or tho other of tho popular rung-nzlnos rung-nzlnos nlmost every month, It will not bo a great whllo beforo wo see cucb Incidents treated Jocularly, nnd oven, perhaps, made n part of a comic opera libretto, romnrkstheBoston Transcript. After thnt comes to pass, of course wo shall look to too tho word passed along that nn intluinto and personal acquaintance with tho surgeon's knife lb strictly uufu&.'ilonable. |