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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Mistakes of physicians. (search)
four years longer. Cotton Mother tells some good stories which he picked up in his experience, or out of his books, showing the unstable equilibrium of prognosis. Simon Stene was shot in nine places, and as he lay for dead, the Indians made two backs with a hatchet to out his head off. He go well, however, and was a lusty fellow in Cotton Mather's fines Jabes Musgrave was shot with a bullet that went in his our and came out of his eye on the other side. A couple of bullets went through his body a so Jabes got well, however, and lived many years. per contre, Colonel Rositee, cracking a plumbstone with his teeth, broke a tooth and lost hivlife. We have seen physicians dying, like Spigelue, from a soratch; and a man who had a crowbar sent through his head is alive and well. These extreme cases are warnings. But you can never be too cautous in your progaosis, in the view of great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long patched and the many unexpected turns it may take.