The first sufferer to be laid on that table was…
source date: 1889
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roof of the operating room. The patient was placed on a deal table, similar to those used in kitchens except that it was much longer than the average.” The first sufferer to be laid on that table was a cattleman s wife. She had a ruptured bladder, the result of childbirth. 1 )r. W . M. Slough chose Ed. Luke, a wholesale liquor dealer in Silver City, to administer the chloroform. Ld was a (Continued on Page 37) M. R. Koehler Wright. The photograph was wade in New York in the eighties before coming to New Mexico to help establish New Mexico A. and M. College 'W' Elizabeth Warren. Her imagination and hard work made her an out- standing woman in a “man’s world” graduate of medical school, but had never followed the profession, preferring to merchan- dise whiskey. For his assistant, the doctor chose Elizabeth Warren. He showed her pictures in his medical books, so she would know what to expect, and explained to her the duties of washing sponges, threading needles, and hand- ling instruments.