Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — Modern Surgery. [ARTICLE]

Modern Surgery.

Life is not only saved or prolonged in thousands of instances every year through the agency 4 of modern surgical skill, but kow muelr'more tolerable and happy it has been rendered by the wonderful progress made in this branch of science. If misfortune overtakes us and we are brought under the surgeon's knife, it is only necessary !*o inhale the vapor of a few ounces of ether or chloroform, and we become oblivious to all suffering. Consciousness returns only to awaken joy that the duties of the" surgeon are ended. Surgical instruments and appliances are marvelous of artistic skill and ingenious invention. What with the ophthalmoscopes, stethoscopes, spectroscopes, curious mirtv>rs, etc., the human body in most of its pajls is brought quite within the field of vision, so that dark cavities and deeply-hidden organs are illuminated and forced to reveal to the eye the nature of morbid conditions. The future for scientific surgery, and also for medicine and chemistry, is full of promise. One difficulty after another will be surmounted in the years, to come, and perhaps there will remain ultimately but one great physical catastrophe which cannot be overcome by human skill, and that is death. —Bouton Journal of chemistry.

At Elmira, N. Y., ‘ recently, a young lady named Ruth Vanettan,' from Auburn, N. Y.’i was killed at Watkins’ Gltn; by falling down a precipice near the entrance. 'She lost her footing and slipped through between the lower rails of the railing and the ground. She fell a distance of ninety-five, feet and was almost literally dashed to pieces. She was with an excursion party from Auburn.

Gnua are scarce and proportionately precious in Lac qui Parle, Minn., there being only one gifl to eight boys in that unfortunate town.,.