American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-14
The Cancer Hospi tai.

On Saturday last, at the hospital, DIR. Pond,
assisted by DIR. E. IL: Gale, performed crit
Louis, removing a cancer of enormous growth
from the right arm-pit. Her right breast was
removed year ago by st. Louis surgeons,
but the cancer continued to spread around
beneath the arm and assumed such proper
lions that as a last hope she placed herself un.
der the treatment Of DIR. Pond. The opera
ton was most skillfully performed, the un,
fortunate lady bearing up remarkably well
through the dangerous ordeal, and We were
glad to observe that the doctor seemed to en-
terrain hopes of her recovery.
operations were performed by means OF cleo
tricity, with the most satisfactory results. A
very dangerous cancer was removed from the
left breast of Mrs. Bailey, wife OF the Rev.
Hiram Bailey, of Buchanan, Iowa-also, an
immense cancer from the left breast OF Mrs.
r. w. Mckinney, of Bushnell. On Saturday
afternoon we found the last named lady NOV
ing about her room in very comfortable con-
dition, and from her lively manner and pleas
ant smile it was difficult to realize that she had
60 recently undergone an operation OF TINS char-
acter. Strong hopes are entertained tnat Doth
these ladies will fully recover.
Electricity Is used wherever 1t can be advan-
tageously employed, but OF course Dr. fond
has many surgical operations In which MS
powerful battery cannot be brought into play
in the cauterizing process. Some OF these
operations are of the most critical and dan
gerous character imaginable, requiring great
skill and experience, a keen eye, qu1ckness OF
execution and unflinching nerve-in all OF
which quail fications DIR. f. H. Glle, of this
city, SO long connected with the hospital, is
peculiarly gifted, and so satisfactory and sue
cessful have his operations proven that DR..
Pond no longer calls to his aid more notable
surgeons from abroad.
Among other patients at the hospital Is
Daniel Huff, of Fountain City, Indiana,
brother-in-law of w. p. Nixon, Of the Inter
Ocean. Mr.. Huff Is afflicted with cancer In
the lower lip, but is doing we'll and will be en-
tirely cured. -,
with his aged mother, who is being treated for
very severe cancer of the breast, and the
venerable lady bears her sufferings with re-
markable fortitude now that hope OF re-
The house is completely filled with patients,
and has been for many months, some arriving
and others departing every week ana ire
quently every day, and as usual they come
from all points Of the compass. it not being
unusual to find nearly every State in the
Union represented there at times. On
Saturday last, upon a single floor, we found
under treatment persons from various
Sin, Iowa, Minnesota. Nebraska, Kentucky
and Aissouri-and we were presented to one
pleasant old gentleman who had travelled
fhirty-fi hundred miles to place himself un'
der the care of DIR. Pond. This was Mr.. j. q.
Scoggin, whose home is in far off Washington
Territory, and who arrived at the hospital last
Wednesday, by way of San Francisco. He Is
seventy years of age, and is troubled with an
ugly cancer inside the lower lip, which will
probably be entirely removed without dis.
figuring the face-at asst It is very hopeful
case.
AS usual, there are some terribly shocking
cases under treatmei t, tut it is believed thai
the average Is improving from year to year,
which is accounted for by the fact that those
afflicted begin to have better understanding
OF the nature of this fii.htful disease, and
are no longer disposed to delay until theii
case has become utterly hopeless before seek
ing relief.-Aurora (W) Beacon.