STORIES OF A FAMOUS SURGEON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 10

STORIES OF A FAMOUS SURGEON.

Some amusing anecdotes of Sir Thomas Smith, the eminent surgeon, whose death was reported in London in October, have been recorded by the president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Thomas was one day standing at the bedside of a poor little girl patient at the hospital, whose appetite was very bad. Turning to the sister, the surgeon said, "What would she like? Periwinkles, eh?" at which the child's eyes lighted up, and he wrote solemnly on the diet board, "Periwinkles and a pin." On another occasion when going round the hospital wards the genial surgeon found a woman with a badly-cut lip, which had been damaged by a jug that had been thrown at her during a quarrel with another woman. "How shall I head the board, sir," said the housesurgeon. "Well, I think you might describe it as 'jugged hare lip,' " said Sir Thomas. 4 s , au after-dinner speaker Sir Thomas Smith s wit and humour made him a great favourite. Speaking at one of these functions, which was being held by one of the London medical societies, he described a certain case as "That of a little boy whose spleen and liver are contending for the mastery of his stomach."