The Sunday herald., 1886-11-07
AMAZING SURGICAL CASE.
A Remark able Operation and CnriOui
Rcsult-TakiuC Out Negroes Bowels

A Remark able Operation and CurtOus
RcsuIt-TakinG Out n Negroes BOwels.
NEW YoRK Nov GA faroHsiy Gel,ToIs negro
Jewish charity, hut Its benefactions know no color
line. The black man had for several days prior TO
aud bones remained, and that all the rest OF him had
long before been taken away TO be buried. 1t was
curious hauclnaion and yet not altogether unrea
remarkabe-nothlng less than one OF those WONDER
ful surgical operations that are nowadays under.
Sinai had taken his ntestlnes, put them Into an
artificial abdomen made out OF rubber shirt ana
some hot towels, and left them there until tnronSn
turned him inside In and outside out again. iils
trouble was a tnmor on one OF tho arteries. Dr;
William p. Fluhrer, visiting surgeon to Mount Sinai
and Bellevue Hospital, who performed the opera
ton, had the man prepared for 1t by giving MN
thorough scrubbing with weak solution OF csrooic
of ether the surgeon made an incision extending
six inches downward along the middle line OF ne
abdomen,a q st cut into 1t from one side. and the
small intestincs were all drawn from the abdomen
% was then I QUICKLY I folded over them holding them
as II In bag TO keep them warm they were COW
cred with towles out OF warm solution oi car
A ligature of fine silk thread had been prepared
by boiling 1t two hours In carboc acid, and then
SO KIN Hg ne ,% nars % m Inc
tor tore ALT half inch long In the lining OF the
back OF the abdominal cavity, directly oyer me ne
I
| OF the shape and size OF mans ast; win BUN !
curved needle the surgeon passed the Blk lgatnre
around the artery three-fo -fourths Of inch from the
| tnmor, where It was firmly tied and the ends cut
short. The inestines, which had been kept In Their
artificial cavity about twenty minutes, were then
transferred to their natural resting place. and INC
wound was closed by stitching the abdomen lining
together with Cagut and the skin with silK IL wat
then dressed with rubber tissue and odoform, ovei
which were placed layers OF sublimated gauze and
| and borated cotton.
Tho patient awaked after having been kept insen
sbe two hours, and at frat he gave Indication tha
| he would recover. For tho first live days he wa
| given hypodermatic Injections OF morphine to qule
resesaness. On the first day he was allowed to eat
cracked ice then to drink milk and lime water, ant
| on the NTH and sixth days to swallow milk AM
| small quantities OF whisky. The healing OF tht
wound progressed favOrably but the acute lnfamma
tloh began telling him, he lost his strength rapidly
and on the seventh day after the operation he died
Drs. Fluhrer and PnrrOy believe that he would have
recovered II his system had been otherwise sound
| Now, with this operation 10 view, the reader ma
think II perfectly reasonable that the negro should
In his dellrum, have imagined that his Interior ha
heen robbed of all contents; but the fact s that h
never knew the nature or extent of what the sur
geons had done to him. 1t was deemed best not 4
inform him Us to the liberties taken with him Will
he was under etheriHatiOn, and he simply knew ha
Ian operation OF some sort had been performed. Tn
interesting scientific question therefore arises ho'
hallucnatlOn evidently caused BY the truth too
possession of his mind. IL there such thing
physical memory, wholly aside from mentality?
ID. NJ. WHITROw, NJ. ID.