Adventures in Servia Or the Experiences of a Medical Free Lance Among the Bas
Adventures in Servia Or the Experiences of a Medical Free Lance Among the Bas
Alfred Wright
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We have a saying in England which is doubtless intended to be illustrative of this fact, but which, of course, is not to be interpreted literally, that King Charles I. Walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off; and I myself have seen fowls leap into the air and run about for some seconds after decapitation. " The sceptical Mouravioff laughed loudly, and even the courteous Savrimovitch looked incredulous, but I was far too much interested in the work I had in hand to take any not...ice of either of them. To my disappointment I found no old bullet wound on the prisoner, but my desire to confer further surgical blessings on our barbarian captive was not altogether thwarted. I perceived that he had a small epithelio- matous ulcer on the lower lip. I decided there and 144 ADVENTURES IN SERVIA. then on its removal, and explaining the malignant nature of the lesion to the Russians, cut away the affected part, without the slightest objection from my patient. Perhaps I ought to add that he remained insensible the whole time, but if he had been conscious, no reasonable person could suppose but that he would have submitted cheer- fully nay, gladly to an operation fraught with such advantage to himself.
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