. Stories of a country doctor . the time I returned he had taken a cloth and warmwater, and after picking the grass and weeds off thewounded mans bowels, had washed them quite then caught up the wounded intestine, and, instead oftrying to put the cut edges together he laid the two sdesof the cut intestine side by side, as you would bring the. he threw the rig end away and reachedfor another bug. lyiARs AND Their Lies. 295 edges of 3Our coat sleeve and your cuff together. Hethen called for a bug and, taking it gentl} by the body,he straddled the two horns over the doubled then
. Stories of a country doctor . the time I returned he had taken a cloth and warmwater, and after picking the grass and weeds off thewounded mans bowels, had washed them quite then caught up the wounded intestine, and, instead oftrying to put the cut edges together he laid the two sdesof the cut intestine side by side, as you would bring the. he threw the rig end away and reachedfor another bug. lyiARs AND Their Lies. 295 edges of 3Our coat sleeve and your cuff together. Hethen called for a bug and, taking it gentl} by the body,he straddled the two horns over the doubled then gave the bug a squeeze which irritated it andcaused it to clasp its horns together. The horns pene-trated the bowel from side to side. He then, by aslight twisting motion, wrung the bug in two at thesmall part of its waist, threw the big end away andreached for another bug. He proceeded in the samewa}—putting his stitches about a half inch apart—untilhe had closed a cut in the splenic flexure of the colonabout four inches long. He then returned the boweland closed the wound in the abdominal wall with flaxthread in a common sewing needle. The fellow neverhad a bad symptom and was out carrying the chain inabout six or eight weeks. A profound stillness prevailed after this story wasfinished, and the old man seemed to grow restless and gotup
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