St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-26

Inc pancreaS ana certain pdTIS vi
the bladder have not yet been touched
by the surgeons knife.
Cancer of the stomach is disease
absolutely incurable by medicine. 1t
makes very slow progress, however. 1t
requires two or three years to Kill It's
victim. Now" and the eminent sur
geon waxed eloquent. "if the cancer
could be properly attacked by the knife
its course, life might be saved by the
removal of portion OF the stomach
itself.
"All eminent surgeons are looking
forward to this contamination.
The human brain has not yet been
removed, of course. We may cut away
those portions or areas of the brain
which have to do with eyeSight and
speech and the motion OF the eXtrem-
tiles. But the medulla oblongata is not
to be touched by the knife; that is the
seat of life, the central station, with
which all portions of the brain are in
communication. Damage to 1t impairS
the action of the heart and lungs, and
so saps the fountains of life. DR.. Henry
r. Wharton, of Philadelphia, collected
SIG cases of foreign bodies lodged in
the brain and carried there for some
time. Ma ny of these were successfully
removed.
'There are many cases on record
where people have lived with bullets in
their brains. A number of New York
and Philadelphia physicians operated
-on Mary Anderson, the young girl who
was shot in the brain by Barclay Peak,
at Mount Holly, N. j. She died after
the bullet had been located by j. II.
Girdner. of New York, with his Undue
ton balance or eelectric probe. Many
not diSsimilar cases have recovered.
This electric probe was successfully
used on Patrick McGannon, at Bellevue
hospital, in this city, by the sanction of
the New York Academy of Medicine.
1t has been used with success in other
cases since, and is regarded as a vaiu-
able addition to the tools of their trade
by many OF the leading surgeons of the
city.
Men have lived after the entire
frontal bone has been blown away by an
explosion, the eyes destroyed and the
brain exposed, as in the case of Calvin
Pease. of San Antonio, Tex, who was
injured by the premature explosion of Il
blast in well.
II have used this induction balance
to locate bullets in the brain"-the
speaker stands in the front rank of his
prOfeSSiOn-''and found it did its work
well.
"In cases of CONFUSION limited to GER
tain groups of muscles and of paralysis
of certain members the specialist may
locate the seat of the trouble in the
brain and remove it. But as recently
as ten years ago such operations as this
were unknown.
"Men have carried bullets in their
hearts for years, where the missile has
lodged in the walls and not gone all the
way through. A punctured wound of
the heart with dagger or knitting
needle does not necessarily cause death.
Hall of the bayonet wounds of the liver
got well during the war. And like sue
cess attended the treatment for many
bullet wounds of the liver where no
other organ was injured. But there Is
only one case recorded where any por-
ton of the liver has been cut away.
Nellie Steele, whose case was treated at
the Bellevue hospital in this city, lived
for more than thirty years with needle
in her heart. Samantha johnson, of
New Brunswick, n. j., was found after
death to have lived for some time with
rupture in her heart which severed it
three-Quarters of an inch. know of no
authenticated case of man with two
hearts,"
DR.. Bull, of New York, and DIR.
Wharton, OF Philadelphia, have also
declared that they knew of no such
case. But case is reported in Boston
of negro named King George. who
seemed to have head on each side of
his body, and who, when examined by
DR.. j. J. Smith, Drs. Richardson. War
rem and others of the Massachusetts
general hospital. seemed to have the
power of suSpepding animation and to
show "true pulsations'' on both sides
of the chest.
Suppose your neck is broken! That
is the worst the hangman can do to you
But the doctors may get you out even
OF that scrape. Old Ransom Floyd, who
was shot by burglar in Westport. n.
Y, in February of this year, lived for
five weeks with a broken neck, as
shown at the autopsy performed by
Drs. w. E. PattisoE. Il. E. Delano and
graph operator in Brooklyn, fell out of
neck and got past the fatal stage of his
injury under the care of the sur,
geons of the Homeopathic hospi-
tai. Frank Spencer, of Elizabeth, n
j.. lived three years with broken neck.
as shown at an autopsy performed by
DR.. Morris, of Bellevue hospital, in this
city. Lizzie Hammond. a servant in
the Brooklyn hotel in San Francisco,
was discovered in the room of guest,
and, in attempting to escape through
the window, fell to the pavement and
dislocated her vertebr9. She was re-
stored to health by DR.. f. F. Lord, who
subsequently. when she at length died
of smallpox, instituted legal proceed
ings to recover her skull and upper
vertebr@-which she had promised him
Tin the interests of science"
"There is but little to say of recent
triumphs of eye surgery" said a leading
oculist. but conjunctiveness. the only
eye epidemic here, comes nearly every
| spring, because we are not able to rid
the air of bacteria. Antisepsis prevents
the spread of contagious diseases of the
eye, such as the ophthalma, which is
| epidemicin climates like that of Egypt"
Modern surgery" said another prac-
| titioner, ''giveS men new eyes, even
| success. 1t gives them new blood, tap
ping, to that end, the veins of some
| fellow-man; it takes out his ribs and
IartS of his lungs and spine, it he does
not like them; it gives him, on occasion,
new larynx to talk with, new skin to
perspire through; it cuts out his tongue
or his thigh bone. and even stretches
his nerves to get the kinks out of them
1t straightens his crooked legs and pro-
vides him with good, live tendOns from
dog when his own have suffered mis-
| fortune, and it makes him new nose, a
new mouth, new kneecap or new
| ear if he wishes. 1t won't be long be.
fore it may make him Frankenstein
| if the progress of science continues
| "The finest surgeons in the world"
says another eminent medical man of
| Philadelphia. "are to be found right
| here in New York. in Philadelphia and
in Boston. The expulsion of American
| students from German universities need
bring no detriment to the progress, OF
surgical science in this country.
Neither Berlin, Paris. Vienna nor Lon
don can claim superiority in surgery
| over New York. Young men from those
cities might we'll come over here and
study with our leading specialists. In
fact, expect to live to see the day
when medical students from abroad