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Then he came back towards Jonas again a few steps, looking him full in the face, and then whisked about again, and went on farther than before, and then stopped and looked back, as if to see whether Jonas was going to follow him. Jonas stood just in advance of the oxen, hesitating. "That must be the way," said Jonas. "Franco knows."
But Franco possessed such skill as an operator, and appears to have been so earnest in the pursuit of what he considered a legitimate calling, that he finally overcame the popular prejudice and became one of the salaried surgeons of the republic of Bern. He was the first surgeon to perform the suprapubic lithotomy operation the removal of stone through the abdomen instead of through the perineum.
It belongs to the Portuguese community, and was established 148 years ago by an English gentleman of the name of "Franco." Mr Montefiore then went to the ancient burial ground, where he obtained some terra santa to take home with him. On his return to the house of his host, he found every member of the family prepared to welcome the Sabbath.
Besides this, he had a most sumptuous decoration made in the great open court, all full of stories; on one side of the Greeks and Romans, and on the other sides of deeds done by illustrious men of that house of Medici, which were all executed under the direction of Tribolo by the most excellent young painters that there were in Florence at that time Bronzino, Pier Francesco di Sandro, Francesco Il Bacchiacca, Domenico Conti, Antonio di Domenico, and Battista Franco of Venice.
"Why don't you call him Ney?" asked Josey; "that is his real name." "I was uncertain which to call him for some time," said Jonas; "but finally I concluded to let him keep both names, and so now he is Franco Ney." "Well," said Josey, "I think that is a good plan." A short time after this, Jonas turned up off from the pond, and soon reached home.
"Lieutenant Styles will be in command, Franco, till I return, you know, and I fear he will form a dangerous substitute, with his affable nature," said the captain, as the hour of parting drew near. "Well, never mind that, captain; no matter how affable, we boys do not wish a new commander just now," returned the true-hearted boy. "Take care of your scalps, Franco.
As our Franco Sacchetti says, a woman dreams over-night of a serpent biting her, breaks a drinking-cup the next day, and cries out, `Look you, I thought something would happen it's plain now what the serpent meant." "But the Frate's visions are not of that sort," said Cronaca.
As this operation is considered by some the most important operation in surgery, its discoverer is entitled to more than passing notice, although he was despised and ignored by the surgeons of his time. Franco was an illiterate travelling lithotomist a class of itinerant physicians who were very generally frowned down by the regular practitioners of medicine.
"Get home, Franco!" said Jonas again; and, stooping down, he took a piece of hardened snow or ice from the road, and threw it towards him. The ice fell, before it reached Franco, and rolled along towards his feet, which made him scamper along a little farther; and then he stopped, and turned around, and looked at Jonas, as before. Jonas began slowly to turn backwards, keeping his eye on Franco.
Then he glanced enquiringly over at Brellier, who had risen from his seat. "You have something to say about this, Mr. Brellier?" Brellier made a clicking sound with his tongue. "I'm afraid my niece has been wasting your time, sir," he said quietly, "because I happen to have used that little instrument myself five months ago. We had a dog who was hurt you remember Franco, 'Toinette?
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