BRAVE SURGEONS.
The coolest courage in time of war is not always shown by the officer or soldier. The surgeon and ambulance nurse carry on their work of saving life as undismayed in the midst of shot and shell, as the men whose work it is to take it. An anecdote is often told by the seafaring folk who live on the shores of Buzzard's Bay of a certain Dr Ebenezer Swi£t, who went from among them to serve in the Mexican war. He was surgeon in General Kearney’s division under General Scott through all the battles of the campaign. During the battle of Molino del Bey, he was so busily occupied with the wounded that he did not perceive that the American lines had fallen back, and that he was left exposed to a raking fire from the enemy. General Worth, passing, ordered,him sharply to fall back, adding, "You are drawing the fire from Chapultepec!" The bupy doctor glanced up at the clouds of smoke and dust, and answered ah* sently; "In a moment, sir. After another amputation." _______
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8956, 21 November 1889, Page 3
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