The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
FOREIGN SURGEONS SAID NO,
BUT AMERICANS OPERA TED ON CAPT.
EDWARD TEMPLE ROSE
The vermiform Appeaalx Successfully Re.
moved and He Leaves st. Luke's Hospi.
tai Sound and weii-He 10 the Third
Son OF tho LNte Sir JohA Nose.


surgical operation Of more than usual
interest was performed q short time ago ut st.
Luke's Hospital Perhaps the chief point Of
interest lies in tho fuct that Edward Temple
Rose. lately Captain In the Tenth Hussars.
OF which tho Prince Of Wales is Colonel. after
consulting with many of tho leading surgeons
in England and In France. made the voyage OF
the Atlantic especially to have the operation
performed here. Tho operation con sisted in
the amputation OF tho vermiform appendix.
which. OWN. to It's fatal attraction for stray
grape pits. has become sort OF a popular bug
aboo. The operation. which. under the cir
cumstanccs. was one OF the most difficult and
dangerous known to surgery. was completely
successful. and Capt. Rose is now we'll and
strong.
Capt Rose. who is n large. heavily built man
OF 81. Is tho third son of tho lato Sir John
Rose. His wife Is Lady Cecilia. q daughter Of
the Earl OF Cathcnrt. She accompanied him
when he came to this city for tho operation.
and was guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Forbes Leith
ct 40 Park avenue while Capt. Rose was in the
hospital At present sho and her husband are
at the Hotel Brunswick. Capt. Rose besides
being CAPTAIN OF the Tenth Hussars. served
as a member OF the Princes staff in India. Tie
and his wife are great travellers. Last spring
they visited America. and before that they had
made an extended tour In China and Japan.
About two years and a half ago Capt. Rose
had the first attack Of his complaint, which Is
technically known as appendicitis. or inflam-
nation Of tho vermiform appendix. The ap-
pendix Is little pouch at the lower erd OF tho
large intestine. It is about six INCHES long
known, functions. except that OF provoking
operative surgery. According to Darwin. its
purpose is to prove that man is evolved from
Whether Capt. Roses first attack Of arpen-
dicifis was due tn crane pit or some other ir.
time. during the last two years. and q half:
Capt Rose has suffered from fourteen different
attacks frynE in from hours
waited the complaint, which developed into a
chronic form: and was almost certain to keep
was att. nded with excruciating pain while it
lasted. and toward the end the pain became
first consulted attempted only medicinal re-
lief, Later Capt. Rose sought the advice Of
France: But in both countries the surgeons
refused to operate. In the case Of q large man
ws 1ses Eoss es In sss s i S.
GRAFTON. which, In the experience OF Continent
tai surgeons. under tho most favorable cir
cumsst9nces. has been only too often unsuc-
:, One Of the noted English surgeons to whom
Capt. Rose applied admitted to him that In this
were further advanced than the Continental
surgeons although it was believed that under
the cirenm,s St the operation could not be
When Cant Rose RS We, returning to England
fully operated on for, appendicitis ut Lenox
SOONER had Capt. Rose learned the details Of
the case than he made up his mind to return
to America and have his case , Be-
any time he did not oven wait to reach Eng
land but he and his wife were transferred at
Sueense1~n to a return steamship bound for
pr. Francis r. Kinnieutt the attendant, ply
sician Of st: Luke,s Hospitals was the physi-
nsut se N reaeSin Ms New YORK A%
Of chronic aDpendlcitis. and pr. William T.
su ths Sss OF st
lose was told that his n Size Fender an
operation UNUSUALLY difficult, but the physi-
excellent prospect of success: Unless an op-
eroso certain ultimately and the
Capt Rose was taken to the hospital and
after two or three days EreParetion the opsr-
Se@ber a' Itasted two ' hours '' and ff hail. and
Capt M9se was Gept. under ether all that tine
first incision disclosed such unusual. dificul-
ties that DR.. Bull was on the point Of closing
up the wound and abandoning tho attempt as
homeless Tho abdominal wal was found 20
be four inches chick. and. to add to this. diff
abnormallv bent. M. behind tho large mites.
tine 1t WAS decided. however to 60 on. and
days following Capt. Roses condition was crit
zeal. After that In spite OF conf lication OF
Influenza he began to mend rapidly. and on
sound and well.