Show I 1 A SURGEONS VOCATION tho constant strain upon ills 1119 mental 01 tiong A Stir surgeon gen gives an catline of I 1 the tiring ml and sickening duties of HI his profession A autobiography of the lote lr dr gross I 1 have aldays maintained that it is is impossible for any man to be a great burgeon if lio lie is 13 destitute even in in a considerable degree of the finer feet gnp inge of our nature I 1 have often lain awake aak for hours houra tho tile night before an impo important operation and buffered suffered gre great at mental distress tor for days da a after it was over I 1 nis was certain that my patient was out of danger I 1 do not think that it is is poLi po blo for a criminal to feel much orme tho the night before ins his execution than a surgeon hen lie knows that upon its skill and attention mu at depend the fate late of a valuable citizen husband father mother or child surgery under such circumstances is a terri terrible blo taskmaster taik taRk maiter master feeding like a vulture upon a manla vi vitals atals it ie is surprising that any surgeon in large pr practice getice should ever attain to a ta b cold old age so gre great at are the 74 diw and tear of mind and body the world has seen in y a bad sad picture I 1 will mill draw one mi 0 of ill the e surgeon it is ini inid duy the sun ii bright and beautiful all nature is redolent of jov joy men imd and women crowd the street ean ot arrayed in in their best and all apparently Is peace and happiness within A thin and without in a it largo large house almost overhanging this street so full c of I 1 life and liea lies upon a couch an ail emaciated figure once one of the swee sweetest test and loveliest of her tier sex a entitling confiding and affectionate wife w ife and tho tile adored mother oi of numerous children the lie subject of a frightful disease of one of her limbs or it may ma be of her tier jaw if f not of a it still more important part p of herbowy her body in an adjoining room is the surgeon eurg con with wi t h hie his assi tants spreading rp proa reading ding out his instruments and and getting things in readiness for tho the impending operation he ile assigns to each his ap appropriate rop place one administers chloroform another takes charge of the limb one screws do down n the tourniquet upon the principal artery and another holds himself in in readiness to follow tho the knife with his sponge rhe the flaps aro are roon soon formed the bone severed dred the vessels assel tied and tile hugh wound approximated the woman is is pale and ghastly the pulse hardly perceptible thi skin wet with mith clammy perspiration aaion tho tile oice voice husky the sight indistinct rome some one va whispers inta the ear of the tile busy billy burgeon the patient I 1 fear is is daving 11 are administered the raise gradually rises and after 9 4 few fell bours ours of hard lurd work anxiety reaction occurs 1 tho I e 6 poor was only faint from the joint influence of the shock and lops of blood an assistant a kind of sentinel is is placed pi iced as a guard over her tier m with ith instructions to gir cratch ratch her nth 1 I t h t the I 1 I 1 0 closest care and t to send word the moment the slightest change change for the worse morse is leon the surgeon goes about his bis business visits other patients on the way wa and at nt length long after the tile usual hour he ile sits down N worried and exhausted to his cold and comfortless meal with a mouth almost is as dryland try lind a voice ni As husky us as his tits patients he ile cats c its mechanic mechanically exchanges hardly R v word ord with any member of ins his family and sull sullenly only retires to his study to prescribe for hie his patients never during all this time forgetting the poor I 1 1 mutilated object lie left a few hours ago he ile is is about to lie doun dow n to geta get a moment moments s repose after tile fredere toil of the day when suddenly lie bears loud ring of the bell anti and a servant breathless with excitement begs his immediate presence at the eick sick chamber with the exclamation TI they 0 think mrs is dina M I 1 he e hurries tv the tire scene with rapid pace and ud anxious anxious feeling the stump slump is 14 ot of a n crimson color and the patient lies in a profound swoon an artery has suddenly given way the exhaustion 1 is extreme cordials and stimulant stimulants are r at t once brought into requisition reunion the tile dressings dressing are re removed moed and the tile recusant vessel I 1 is is secured the lital current ebbs and flops flows reaction is more tardy than before and it is is not until a late hour of ill alie bight that the tile surgeon literally norn out in mind and body retire to ills home in search of repose does he lie liepp leep lie ile tries but lie cannot cloce close his lis liscek eyes ces his ilis mind is with ith his patient lie hears e every ery footstep upon the tile pavement under hie his window and is ie in in momentary expectation 0 of lie the rin ringing prig of the tire night bell ho ile is is dis b the tire wildest fancies ho he sees the most terrific objects and as h ho 3 ri ea early in the morning to hasten to his patie patients its chamber he lie feels that I 1 he to ha bal s been cheated of the rest of U which he be stood so much in in need Is this tills picture overdrawn shavo flat at forita for it a thousand timena there is is not an euca educated ted conscientious surgeon that will not certify to its accuracy |