MEDICAL EXPERIMENT.

North Otago Times, Volume XX, Issue 965, 25 August 1874, Page 4

MEDICAL EXPERIMENT.

The following tale is from the Whitehall "Time*" Whiteliaft is a town in Washington county, state of New York:-*-Ou* readers will remember, when General Kilpatrick returned from Chili three years sirice^ his having a remarkable operation performed upon him by a physician in New York, who removed a fleshy formation from the general V neok by,, filling, it foil of needles and thenfttjaiching a galvanic battery to it. 1 Tm^ minutes after the current .of electricity was let on the bunch had disappeared. A remarkable operation was performed 1 by a Whitetall surgeon a few da>* ago. A gentleman., who had. been suffering from a superabundance of; adipoBe tissue consulted .the physician,?, asking for relief from its burdep. r , The doctor, told him he. could relieve him if, he would consent to a painfulope ration. The gentleman consented, and with the medical practiti6ner entered the telegraph office *t this place. The fat man "was; re-•^[trested-to -reffiovd " his'coal land" vest, after .which the physician bui rounded him with wires; attaching the ends to a powerful battery. At a signal from the 1 doctor, manager Eddy 1 let on 'the current. The patient writhed and twisted when he felt the current passing /around him; still, he stood like a martyr. Presently he> began' to shrink j he grew smaller and smaller ; his clothes hung in. bags about.hu fast' diminishing fprni y the doctor felt much pleased at the result of his experiment, while the fornierly_fat_ man's joy was very great, although he seemed to be suffering' acute pain. ' All' of a sudden there was heard a loud clicking at the instrument, atj if Pandenionitfm's? great hall had been let loose. ,, The operator .Bprang quiclcly to answer tjhe call. He. ascertained it was from the New York office. ' He quickly asked " What's tip V An answer came baclc'as if some infuriated demon was at the other end of the wire, "What in thunder, are -you about ? Cut off ,yourwires quick — you.are filling the New! York office" with soap-grease.". . ' '