. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon (and other sketches); or, In the doctor's sappy days . **&* Foremost fighting fell. Time was, when, fainting from the loss of blood, he was carried to the field hospital, where the first dressing was put on his wounds, and the blood stanched; when, delirious with fever and pain, later, 167 RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON. at the general hospital, the bearded and the beard-less surgeons consult, and decide that the loss of aleg is necessary to save life; when consciousness isrestored, and the alternative is told him,—quickas a flash he sees the long years ahe
. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon (and other sketches); or, In the doctor's sappy days . **&* Foremost fighting fell. Time was, when, fainting from the loss of blood, he was carried to the field hospital, where the first dressing was put on his wounds, and the blood stanched; when, delirious with fever and pain, later, 167 RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON. at the general hospital, the bearded and the beard-less surgeons consult, and decide that the loss of aleg is necessary to save life; when consciousness isrestored, and the alternative is told him,—quickas a flash he sees the long years ahead, when, lameand old, and perhaps friendless, he shall drag out. Carried bleeding to the rear. a miserable old age in some Home or asylum;or die of hunger and neglect on the roadside. Buthe loves life; he clings to delusive hope. Cut heroff, Doctor, he says, stoutly, but with a suppressedsigh. The fumes of chloroform are suggested to me by168 THE STOKY OF A STUMP. every stump. I see a strong man stretched proneon the table. I see the aproned surgeons,—sternof visage,—kind and gentle of heart; I see thegleam of a long knife; I see the warm life bloodspurt out as it cleaves the quivering white flesh. Ihear the grating of the saw as it cuts its way thro
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