Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-05
SURGICAL OPERATION WITHOUT Pans.

we copy the following operation for the removal Of poly
pus nom the nose from the May number of the Boston d
cal and Surgical Journal We Of course know nothing about
the matter beyond the facts furnished by highly intelligent and
respectable Witnesses and this particular case is written by
most unwilling witness In the the attention of
physicians is drawn to the subject more become embol
dened by few fearless examples speak out IN regard 10
topic on which they met by dcue and not by argument
The number OF these accumulate.
There recorded the extpation Of breast at Paris
by Jules CIoquet by Drs Hamad and ouket at Paris,
and by Professor Ducas Savannah the removal Of dis
cased bone from the jaw by Dr. Charlton, the Melville hos
pital Chatham, England; the division Of tendons by Dr.
Engledue, of Southsea amputaon Of the thigh by Dr.
Ward, at the Mellow hospital, Noinghamhire; Dr. lass
wells operation of the character performed Mary
Ann Lakin, Leicester England the amputaon Of leg
by DIR. jones' at Bangor Me-. the extrpaton Of tonsis
by Dr. Bodinier at Paris; and the removal Of from
the neck by the gentleman in New York All these
are well attesed by credabe witnesses and any
wants explanation of the they 60 elsewhere
for it, we merely give the facts.--M " Tribune.
To The Editor Of The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
DEAR Sin Additional 10 the Of like results that
have lately reached from quarters, experiment
has dragged me into being witness of the particulars that
are hereby detailed to YOU follows, for what they
WORTH attending the removal in July, ls43 of polypus
from the nose OF patient IN the mesmerc condition. give
this name TO the condition she for OF better
but names of little consequence the facts only om
taken the tme) being intended be regarded The pa
ont from Montvle, fourteen miles distant to Belfast
for the purpose of having operate She was very re-
spectacle woman Of mild disposition and manners Of con-
siderable energy and activity fair opexon twenty
four years of age, married. had child person Of
good constitution, and to every appearance healthy the
That tumor OF oblong form, largely
attached base probably half inch its smallest diameter
and had been there three months The base larger pro-
portionaly than the of within experience,
and firmly adherent that in removing obliged
tear it away in pieces. had laid my instruments and
about proceeding in the operation when she proposed
be magnetzed if possible she dreaded the pain that
would have to borne and she entirely unacquanted
town, at her request procured the attendance OF gem
eman who had the reputation of being good magnezer
Mr. p p. Qumby, although entirely faithess my
part told her at the time, well Others before,
who hal asked what thought of animal magnetism.
quite confident that the lady and Mr. Qumby had
before, and that there nothing previously concerted
also confident that she took medicine TO induce stu
por In ten minutes after commencing she put into
state OF apparently natural Sleep sitting upright In her chair
breathing and pulse natural color of counnance unchanged
We then moved her from the back part Of my room, where
she happened to be sitting To window for the light Mr.
a. asked her if she felt well she answered distinctly yes
Immediately Gin the presence Of several Of noted
citizens, who had been called their request began
to the poypus and did thoroughly scrapng the sides
of the nos repeatedly with the forceps be that
had removed all the remaining fragments. There
hemorrhage nearly ounce OF blood was operating
four five minutes least During the whole time she
evnced not the slightest symptom Of pain, either by any
grooming, sighing motion whatever, but in all these
respects precisely like the dead body felt convinced that
might well have amputated her The circumstance
that struck the time most singuary of all this
the blood began to down the auces there
slight rough rafting sound of the breathing One Of the
hystandes said she IS choking TO DEATH Mr. c. hawked
and spit repeatedly when she did the and spit the blood
out Of her mouth In about minutes after she awaked
but said she unconscious that thing had been done
complained of pain, and found that She could breathe
freely through her nose that had been entirely closed for
several preceding months. Yours, very sincerely,
ALBERT Il. WHEELOCk, MD.
BELFAST, (ME.) ArRIL 10, IS45.