Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — Remarkable Endurance. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Endurance.

New York Times. . X», n. - , ' The President’s wonderful power or endurance under the operations performed upon him recalls other instances of tbe kind even iriore marvelous, as having occurred in days when surgery was far less skillful and humane than now. Lord Peterborough, the conqueror of Spain under Anne, underwent the most frightful operation knowh to science when past 69, and a week later started on a journey across 7 Europe with post-horses, feeling no ill effects whatever. Nelson, naturally sickly, and having already lost an eye and an arm, was struck at tbe battle of • tbe Nile by au iron splinter ■ which literaly ripped from the bone th© entire flesh of his upper face, leaving it hanging like a veil over hiseyes and mouth, yet he not only preserved his consciousness during tbe dressing of the wound, but actually continued- to direct the course of the battle. Luigi Conaro, the famous Venetian Senator, nephew of ? the celebrated Doge of that name, having broken tbe bone of his thigh at 83, bore the setting of it without flinching, and subsequently recovered the full use of the limb. Equally resolute, though less fortunate, was Duke Albrecht, of Austria, who, when the court surgeon Shrank from operating npon his diseased limb, placed the edze of a battle-axe on the joint, and with one blow of h|s right through. He Kurffireq. this primitive surgery only No man. will exceil in hhs profewlonif he-tbfnte himself above it; and com-: merce will not flourish In any country, where commerce is not respected.