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She was commanded by Buchanan, a very gallant and able officer, who had been on the Merrimac, and who trusted implicitly in his invulnerable sides, his heavy rifle guns, and his formidable iron beak. As the ram came on, with splendid courage, the ships got under way, while Farragut sent word to the monitors to attack the Tennessee at once. The fleet surgeon, Palmer, delivered these orders.
She is of a calm temperament too; as far as I can observe." They stood talking for a minute at the door, when Lord Hartledon went out. Pike happened to pass on the other side of the road. "He is here still, I see," remarked Hartledon. "Oh dear, yes; and likely to be." "I wonder how the fellow picks up a living?" The surgeon did not answer. "Are you going to make a long stay with us?" he asked.
Old Jason would easily get well the colonel himself was surgeon enough to know that and he himself dressed and bandaged the ragged wound that the big bullet had made through one of the old man's mighty shoulders.
In conveying him into Christiansand he suffered much from the shaking of the car; but the joint was quickly set by a skilful surgeon; and, in the evening, the love he felt for the people was so strong, that he could not remain absent from the meeting which had been appointed for that time, and he even took part in its vocal exercise. It was, writes John Yeardley, a favored time.
Believing that it was from outside that the germs came which caused the decomposition of wounds, just as from the atmosphere the sugar solution got the germs which caused the fermentation, a young surgeon in Glasgow, Joseph Lister, applied the principles of Pasteur's experiments to their treatment.
Remember Gerard Dubois, my good Peter, when the thing comes to pass." Without paying particular attention to the speaker, the surgeon had again devoted himself to the invalids for whom he had also made up a bed in the hay loft. He looked after the dog too once more, then gave his hand to the Counsellor and fetched his hat and stick.
I sent for the surgeon, but before he could arrive the poor misguided fellow was dead. I was glad to get away from the spot where the catastrophe I have described occurred, but it was very, very long before I could get the scenes I had witnessed out of my head.
The surgeon states in his report, that the food supplied at the establishment is 'wholesome, and ample; and the health of the convicts seems very good, for only two had died up to that time, and both of these were landed in a very debilitated condition. He states the number of convicts in January 1851 at 140. The chaplain's report is interesting and encouraging.
"There's a patient of mine drawing very near the time when doctors can do no more for him. He has expressed a wish to see you, and I undertook to convey the request." "I'll go, of course," said Val, all his kindliness on the alert. "Who is it?" "A black sheep," answered the surgeon. "I don't know whether that will make any difference?" "It ought not," said Val rather warmly.
"I call that handsome, guv'nor," he exclaimed, "and I ain't above saying so." "Take another glass of brandy, Hawkins." "Thank you kindly, sir; I don't care if I do," answered the groom; and again he replenished his glass with the coarse and fiery spirit. "I've given you that sovereign because I believe you are an honest fellow," said the surgeon.
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