In this way the forceps did not occupy a part of the
opening while the large end of the stone was passing through it.
The capacity of the bladder was reduced, and its inner walls were
in a state of chronic inflammation. The patient quickly recovered
from the effects of the chloroform and felt great relief, both in
body and mind, after the operation, and up to the eighth day did
not present a single unfavorable symptom. The urine began to pass
by the natural channel by the third day, and continued more or
less until, on the seventh day, it had nearly ceased to flow at
the wound. But the restless spirit of the patient's friends could
no longer be restrained. Open hostility with the whites was
expected to begin at every moment, and they insisted on his
removal. He needed purgative medicine on the eighth day, which
they refused to allow him to take. They assumed entire charge of
the case, and the following day started with him to their camps
60 miles away. Nineteen days after he is reported to have died;
but his immediate relatives have since assured me that his wound
was well and that no trouble arose from it. They described his
symptoms as those of bilious remittent fever, a severe epidemic
of which was prevailing at the time, and from which several white
men and many Indians died in that vicinity.
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