Life — August 19, 1897 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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SATISFACTION COMMISERATION how the patient had been in a railway accident, and was taken out of the wreck with forty-six compound fractures, besides innumerable bruises of a less important character. He told how a new rubber heart had been made and fitted into the place of the natural organ, which had been lost in the excitement, and how the artificial heart was doing all the work which could reasonably be expected of any sort of heart. He explained the ingen- > LIFE: HOW A CERTAIN LANDLADY EXPRESSES EXCITEMENT ious mechanism which supplied artificial respiration while the patient's lungs were in the repair shop, and very pro- perly alluded to the job, as a whole, as the most remarkable series of surgical operations in the whole history of the art of medicine and surgery, and con- cluded his succinct and valuable account with this paragraph: “It would give us the greatest pleas- ure to mention the name of the eminent physician who has wrought such a mar- APPRECIATION AND SUSPICION, velous reconstruction of a human being whose condition seemed beyond hope, and who would have been really beyond hope in the hands of anyone else, but the stern mandate of professional ethics holds the writer's hand. Newspaper publicity is extremely offensive to the medical profession, for its members are not allowed to advertise, under severe penalties. It is with deep regret, there- fore, that the skillful surgeon's name is omitted, and that he is thus deprived of