Show JOKED OKD PILE WHILE HIS G WAIN BEING CUT off NEW METHOD OF OPERATION PURSUED BY SURGEONS mans heart action was too weak to permit of the administration of an An aesthetic new york april 22 while two surgeons were cutting off his leg in flower hospital yesterday edward mccabe mccaba in dill full possession of h his Is faculties watch edthe operation and oc caslo casio nally cracked a joke with un men who were wielding the knives lie ile felt no pain whatever this Is because c a use the physicians pursued a most unusual method of operation mccabe was struck by a third avenue car saturday and suffered ered a compound fracture of the left leg at tho the flower hospital it was found an amputation would bo be necessary sary s it developed that Mc McCabe Cabes 6 heart action was too to permit the ad of an in an aesthetic and it was decided to apply a hypodermic in ejection of 0 cocaine to the spinal column tula this produced what 14 1 known as spinal anaesthesia of the lower extremities es depriving the patient of all seni there hits abair a fair chance of reco recovering ering |