Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — Jack-Knife Surgery. [ARTICLE]

Jack-Knife Surgery.

San Francisco Alta. Gov. Porter, the New Minister Io Italy, is said to have the same disease in his foot that once troubled the late Vice-President Hendricks.. We bopeao, for it was not serious. AB the city physicians gave Hendricks up, when an old country doctor from up about Goshen called in see him and was sbown the sore toe. The eld man looked at it through his specs, took out his jack? knife and lanced it, and then tied it up in a chew of tobacco. When asked what ailed Hendricks he replied. “A bile on his big toe.” ‘ The toe got well. Gov. Porter should Jend for that old fellow at once.