...patient being a woman : She is cheered by kind words, and the information that it will soon be over She is enjoined to be calm and to keep quiet and still But of what avail are all her attempts at fortitude! At the first clear crisp cut of the scalpel, agonizing...

...blood, and laid upon the table. With a knowledge and merciful regard as to the intensity of the agony she is to suffer, opiates and stimulants have been...struggling form, the operation is commenced. "But to what avail are all her attempts at fortitude? At the first clear, crisp cut of the scalpel, agonizing...

...cheered by kind words and the informarion thar it will soon be over and she freed forever from whar now afflicts her; she is enjoined to be calm, and to keep quiet and still, and, with assistance ar hand to hold her struggling form, the operarion is commenced. "Bur of whar avail are all her arremprs...