Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-06-14
The Cancer Hospi tai.

On Saturday last, at the hospital, DR.. Pond,
assisted by DIR. Z. II. Gale, performed . crit.
ical operation upon Mrs. J. Cockrell, Of 81.
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
tions that as a last hope she placed herself IN
der the treatment of DIR. Pond. The opera
ton was most skillfuly performed, the I'M
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.
The day previous to our visit, two blOodlees
operations were performed by means Of cleo
tricity, with the most satisfactory results. A
left breast of Mrs. Bailey, wife Of the Rev.
Hiram Bailey, Of Buchanan, Iowa-also, an
immense cancer from the left breast Of Mrs.
X. 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
SO recently undergone an operation of this char
acter. Strong hopes are entertained that both
these ladies will fully recover.
Electricity is used wherever it can be advan-
tageously employed, but Of course DIR. Pond
has many surgical operations in which his
powerful battery cannot be brought into play
in the cauterizing process. Some of these
operations are of the most critical and dam
gerous character Imaginable, requiring great
skill and experience, keen eye, guickness of
execution and unfinching nerve-in all Of
which qualifications DIR. Z. II. Gale, 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
- u,,T - II.
brother-in-law OF ". T. Nixon, Of the Inter
Ocean. Mr.. Huff is afflicted with cancer in
the lower lip, but is doing well and will be en-
tirely cured.
Dr. ID. W. Duff, OF Carman, ILL.,, is here
with his aged mother, who is being treated for
venerable lady bears her sufferings with re-
markable fortitude now that hope Of re-
covery may be induced in.
The house is completely filed with patients,
and has been for many months, some arriving
and others departing every week and IRE
quently every day, and 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 las., upon a single floor, We found
under treatment persons from various
points IN Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon-
and Aissouri-and We were presented to one
pleasant old gentleman who had Travelled
thirty-five hundred miles to place himself I'M
der the care If DR.. Pond. THIS was Mr.. j. q.
Scogein, 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 least It is a very hopeful
case.
As usual, there are some terribly shocking
cases under treatment, but ii is believed that
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 frightful disease, and
are No longer disposed to delay until their
case has become utterly hopeless before seek
ing relief.-Aurora (IR) Beacon.