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ISBN 13 : 9780483833548
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1895 (Classic Reprint) by :
Download or read book Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1895 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1895 On Sunday morning, June 11th, about 8 a.m., two hurried mes sages arrived to go at once to the patient's house; and as the second of these indicated what had happened, I sent a messenger in a cab to Prof. Annandale, so that we arrived almost simultaneously. His mother, the only responsible person in the house, informed us that it was his usual custom to rise early on a Sunday morning and go over to his garden, and then return to breakfast. Being a little later than usual, she knocked at his door to inquire how he was, but was informed that he only wanted to be left alone. A minute or two after she heard a report, and entering the room found her son lying stretched out on bed with a smoking revolver in his hand, and a hole in his forehead, from which a tremendous amount of blood was rapidly flowing. With extraordinary presence of mind she removed the weapon and bound up the head with a pledget of cotton wool and a bandage, and sent first for a friend and then for medical assistance. Before this gentleman arrived, without any aid twice did the patient walk to the bath-room, lock the door, and attend to himself; and when the revolver was lifted, cried out to his friend, For God's sake, man, be careful that no one is hurt, for it is loaded. The day previously he had been at his work as usual, had attended to the payment of the men under him, and on the afternoon went a drive into the country with some friends, when he seemed perfectly happy and in his ordinary health and spirits. In every one's opinion he was the last person in the world to associate with suicide; and except for a growing irritability in temper, was the sanest man in the world, with no delusions whatever other than that his work was too heavy for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
