SUCCESSFUL OPERATION FOR


CATARACr.
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The Baltimore Patriot Of recent date, gives
the following account ofan operation for Catar-
act, performed upon lady of East Baltimore,
by DR.. Charles S. Reese, Of that city-a young
physician in every way worthy Of the public
favor. The patient had been afflicted for Two
years, and was totally blind. The operation
was skillfully and most successfully performed;
and the JOY experienced and expressed by the
patient, when permitted to look upon her at
tending daughter and friends, whom she had
not seen for SO long Time, may be imagined
more readily than described. The success Of
shis operation, considering its delicacY, the age
and enfeebled health Of the patient, would
have added to the reputation of an older and
more experienced surgeon.


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RuA's DoIrGs.--It is painful duty TO re-
cord such lamentable occurrences as the fol-
flowing:


On Saturday the 18th instant, as the steam
/. er J. J. Crittenden was about landing at Padu-
cab, man who was under the influence of
that most terrible disease, delirium tremens, ran
Ito the wood pile, seized stick, and rushed on
deck, when the head engineer, Mr.. Price Of
st. Louis, observed him, and started in pur-
suit. Mr.. Price took hold to rescue the stick,
when the poor man, supposing the internal
demons, which he saw in vision, had attacked
him, he seized the engineer, and with pow
erful effort, leaped overheard, and sunk to rise
no more. Both were lost