Mansfield, March 27, 1928.

Fro,c the London Medical Gazette. FORTITCDE.
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With the exception of naval and military men. there is no class of community who wit ness more examples of fortitude and personal courage than the practitioners of surgery. What greater proof can be given of confd- ence and courage than that with which per son surrenders himself bllndfolded, and bound hand and foot, to the knife of the operators Every day in the week, this vast metropolis produces, in silence and secrecy, acts of he- roism. of strength of mind, and frmness of purpose that would have done honour to d Roinaa. I have wilny ssrd many in both sex es :; and although the first amputatiOn ever saw had nothing of the sublime or beautiful to recommend it, yet it affords an illustra- l ton of the observati from low life. of how much controll the mind may be under, even during great bodily pam. and the bitter an guish of even the loss of limb. "How do you find yourself, Mrs. Judy ?" said Saint BarthOlomew's surgeon, after taking off the arm of an Irish basket woman. "How do

 find myself! Why without an arm. How the ] devil else should find myself?" was Mrs. Judy's reply.

 In another operation, shortly after of much importance.the force of female character was evinced in a different manner. A lady ofcon- sequpnce--Of the highest order as tO int llec- tual endow wments-had occasion to submit to one of the most serious, ,painful,and protracted operations that the sex can be subjected to. Her case was subject of deep interest to all her friends-of the most bitter anguish to all around her. When the necessary operation became decided, she determined on the spec dy execution of it, and arrangements were made by her own planning, by which her sur geons, and myself. then a surgical aide-de- ca mp, were introduced into the house. and the operation speedily and successfully per formed, without the knowledge any of her own family, or the recognizance of any of large establishment, excepting her own maid.