Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-18
MODERN SURGERY.
Remarkable Operations Successfully Per-
formed.


The extent to which the body can be
mutilated without fatal result is be-
yond what most people think. OF
course, the removal of the largest limb
is familiar fact; and, indeed, the sue
cessive removal of all the limbs would
result in nothing worse than incon-
venience. But in the same way internal
organs may be extirpated. This is facil-
itated by their duality.
One eye may be taken out, and the
sight remain practically unimpaired.
One kidney may be removed, and the
other will make up the loss by doing
double work The case is essentially
the same when disease has destroyed
the functional activity of kidney; and,
therefore, a person in that condition
need not be without hope.
In like manner, disease may have rem
| dered one lung solid, like liver, and
thus functionally useless and yet the
person may live in good health to old
| age. Gould the half-consumed lung of
the consumptive only heal up the walls
Of its great ulcer, and the microbes
cease to extend their ravages, the pa
| tent might, with care, enjoy long.
useful and happy life.
Large portions of the brain may be
removed without injury to life or intel
lect. Persons have lived for years, and
been well, with bullets in the brain.
| The liver has been cut in two by tight
lacing, the pressuse causing an atrophy
Of the part below-without ending
either the life or the folly of the fash
ionable devotse.
A portion of the intestines has been
cut out and the severed ends sewed to-
gether, and their normal action and
| function have not been in the least in
terfered with. And what seems more
amazing, dogs have had their entire
stomaohs extirpated without impairing
digestion.
Recently a man, fifty seven years old,
had large portion of his stomach cut
out, in consequence of a tumor. The
piece was nearly a foot square. The
discovered parts were sewed together.
| and the patient ate a dinner Of hash
twelve days after the operation, and
| was dismissed cured at the end of three
weeks. Five months later he was pre-
sented before the medical society-the
Royal Society of Physicians of Vienna
wholly well, with no trace of the re-
turn of the cancerous disease, and with
digestion perfectly performed.
Some experts are led to think that
the stomach plays but secondary part
as digestive organ, it's chief service,
according to this view, being that of a
temporary eceptacle.-Youth's Com
panion.
A Family Shave.
A Maine family consists of six broth
ers 50 exactly alike that no one but
their closest friends can tell which is
which. One day they happened to be
in q strange town and all wanted a
shave. One of them went into barber
shop, was shaved, and paid the custom
airy ten cents. Five minutes later ap-
parently the same man came back into
the shop. very wrathy, his beard
bristling with a three days growth.
He swore that he had not been half
shaved, and demanded that the work
be done over.
The astonished barber apologized and
complied, but judge of his horror when
not ten minutes later his customer came
back, madden than ever, his beard still
showing on his face, and demanded an.
other shave. Again the barber, after
some protest. complied, but when his
man returned the fourth time it was
too Ruch.
See herer' he cried, 'if you're try.
ing to sell me SEINE patent hair-raiser
I'll take your whole stock, but if you
are an escaped museum freak, either
you've got to get out or I'll have &c
close this shop"
| The APkh and a;v%h bro&hara had t<
pay for their shaves.-Bufalo Express