Show physicians PUZZLED A lunatics dies prom an operation per formed by himself stockton cal july 6 thomas boltz an inmate of the state hospital for tho the insane died from the effects of an operation performed by himself in tile the loft of a barn on the grounds ile he labored under the delusion that lie ho had too much blood and sharpened a case knife on a bride brick made an incision in his groin and took out twenty two inches of intestine in wo two pieces 14 and 8 inches long ile he was discovered three hours later having walked adis a distance of yards unassisted tile the hospital doctors put the man under chloroform and performed the operation of sein sewing to together ether the ends left by him but peritonitis had set in and the patient was beyond recovery the physicians say it is the most remarkable case within their knowledge |