Alexandria Gazette

CAPTAIN DOCTOR MORGAN.—We copy the following from the London Watchman of April 28. Every body knows that sea-going men ought to know a little of every thing, and that they are remarkably "handy" in all emergencies; but this is the most striking instance we have ever met with, of a sailor practising surgery.

During the late terrific gales in the Atlantic, a seaman in the American packet-ship Philadelphia had the misfortune to fall from the rigging and break both his thigh bones, one of which was broken close to the hip, and was a compound fracture. To the credit of her attentive Commander, Captain E. E. Morgan (the sea at the time rolling mountains high, and the vessel having been laboring in a hurricane for several days,) he had the humanity to do his best to save the unfortunate mariner. He at once took upon himself the office of surgeon in promptly reducing the bones of both legs. The seaman did very well; and incredible as it may appear; a cure was effected. On the arrival of the ship in London, the sufferer was conveyed to a hospital, and was told he was going on well. The worthy captain not being content with this, took him to Guy's. On the bandages being removed, the consulting surgeons declared that any student leaving the hospital with the credit of the skilful treatment exhibited in this case might consider himself well established in his profession.