A Marvel of Endurance.

Hastings Standard, Issue 16, 14 May 1896, Page 4

A Marvel of Endurance.

A mi "-nch recruit named" F *-i - - Uage ball, lately had a .-I- --i>- r . quarrel with a man to whose vix lie had bt(_n rather too attentive. The quarrel resulted in the husband giving him a severe blow with a stick on the head and stabbing him in the back and the abdomen, the latter being so serious a wound that the bowels protruded. One would expect that in such a case the man would have fallen to the ground, but instead of this, he placed a restraining hand over the wound and asked a little assistance of a friend, walked to the house of a neighbour and laid himself down on a bed. When the doctor arrived on the scene, accompanied by the maiiv, also a doctor and professor of the College deFranee, they discovered him literally bathed in blood, but perfectly conscious. The intestines had been pierced by the blade, and before they could be restored to their proper position, the wound had to be enlarged and the bowels sewn together ; all this the young man suffered without flinching. When the doctors thought their task was nearly over, they discovered the wound in the back, which proved to be still more serious, the knife having passed completely through one of principal internal organs, and penetrated to a depth of more than six inch' 1 - Fu.-nde maintained the same storiea' • .u ; uale while this was attended to, and when the doctors left him, with strict orders to remain perfectly quiet, he earnestly entreated them to give him some thing to eat. Bach a tremendous power of endurance seems almost incredible, and completely astonished the doctors. Unfortunately the youth's condition Is so serious that there is small probabilty of his recovery, and France is likely to lose one who should certainly have proved a brave soldier.