Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-05-18

took was rejected almost as quickly as
1t WAS swallow. d. Her cast puxzi. lie
physlclsns There WAS no evi. Ell, .
, of ,um'r, and the slightest symptom
Of cancer could not be detected. She
was starving to death. and to give re-
ef it was decided BY DR.. ArbuckIe,
the consulting surgeon Of ST. Luke's
Hospital, to make an opening i" the
1t mach from the side, through which
she could be fed.
After special course of tonic
treatment she was placed upon t',-
operating tahle and given All aEns-
tnetic. Tue incision WAS made in the
the tpmach exy" srd. The st care
tui examination OF t,- stomach ant
other organs extern Il, failed l., sh "
the slikht--t evl, en-, 9 Of sArcuna, Il, d
there was oth'ng 10 warrant thu cor.
tinuance of the operation. The stom-
arh was enlarged somewhat, but
nothing remarkable. The wound VAS
close i in the abdomen.
The patient was losing strength and
vitality every day. Som, thing tad TO
ne done for her. 1t WAS settled that
there must be another operation,
though for what purpose WAS not app
parent. An ,nrisinn was mad ~ the
median line Of the abdomen aud the
walls were held apart with {. tractors.
The surgeon cautiously slit open
the stomach, and u remarkable dis
cnverv was made The whole IT, terror
was filled with a long growth OF hair,
which grew from the bottom OF the
organ upward. There was also lot
of loose hair. Such . condition had
never been seen before, and the sur>
geon did not know what TO do. The
hair when touchrd had a waving
motion that WAS very peculiar. Some
of it was cut out, ard ON every hair
there were a runher % small bugs
that seemed to h- xll legs. The
bodies were blue and the heads red
1t was an entirely new addition to the
hug tribe All Of the hair was cut
from the s'o,nach aud the hugs saved
Some WAS pulled out by the roots,
and produc. All active hemorrhax~.
The stomach was care fully su,ured,
the abdominal wound closed aud de.
velopm.nts awaited.
The patien, WAS greatly improved,
and when the wound in thu stomach
had healed was able to take n"u1ish.
ment. Her food dierstrd we'll, ana
it was thought that she hat he. u
cured She stopped eating hair. tut
the hair in the stomach dill MT stop
growing. When il b. came long there
ton as before, and there was another
operation.
L, i. timc a radical cure was At
tempted. The abdomen WAS opened,
an: the hair WAS shaved close to the
mrin hrane I hen the section in
which the hairy growth originated
WAS removed with y delicate pair OF
scissors. This WAS used AS n patti RI
to obtain from the stomach of
young pig y piece exactly the same
SIZE. Tins WAS removed from the pig
without giving an a,m-,h-tic, and.
while the M, mhrnn. Was pulsnt,nx
with life, it WAS quickly transferred
to the patients body.
To sutu,e it nicely was very difi
cut task, because the m. mhrane in
the woman and tia, in the pig were
lot thu sam- quality and .iast'clt,
TIE su,ure. were made with tn. lin. st
silk. aud ,lxt,>>even little knots were
tied close together. 1t WIS grand
sncc- ss-nne of the holdest attempts
il modern surgery tn unite two differ
emily constructed membranes. The
patient remained IN critical condi
ton fer several DAYS, but, with clos.
attention to nursing and treatment,
she became conval-scing.