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Show PICKED OUT THE WRONG EYE Physician Meant Well Enough but He Had Left the Motorman Seriously Serious-ly Handicapped. Frank K. Payne, n. member of the ituto railroad commission, said when investigating a trolley accident recently, re-cently, he was told of a motorman on a work car who was running at high speed when the trucks left the rails because of snow and sleet, and the car was thrown to the side of the right of way, bringing up against a tele-phone tele-phone pole. ) "The motorman was not seriously t hurt, but was cut and bruised about t the head and face by flying gluis. He was carried to a physician's office where his wounds were dressed and bandaged. When the physician had placed the last pin, he asked the wounded man If he felt like he could walk. " 'Sure, I can walk all right,' returned re-turned the patient, 'but I wish you would fix those bandages so I can eee.' " 'Why, man,' returned the physician. physi-cian. 'I left one of your eyes uncovered for the purpose.' "Put, doc. that eye you left uncovered uncov-ered is a glass one.' " Indianapolis News. |