The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22


cancer2' 10'
yes, there are possibilities. Already
Inuch may be done with the knife if the
dlsease IS attacked early enough. And
Where malignant Prowths are BEYOND the
reach OF the knife physicians have at
tanned wonderful r, suits in checking the
disease by injecting the steriii1ed Ioison
OF eryslpeias There is a case in a New
i orK hospital now in which a man has a
Culhor OF the hip which could not be cut
away without cutting the man in two;
put this sterilized erysipelas poison is
pelng IN etted with far chances of very
gOOo results"
AMERICAN SURGICAL FEATs.
After having recorded DIR. Shrady's in
teresi1g talk on surgery it is edifying to
the patriot TO review an article on Amer
ICAh Achleyements IL Surgery, which he
wrote for the April Forum.
| In this he mentions as the work of
Americans the discovery of etherization
! oy Morton, Jackson and Wells, saying:
Cntll thaJ time the patient suffered un-
| uoIo fortunes Of pain, instead of being. as
now. rendered absolutely unconscious
| during the entire ordeal To trans lorm
such ordeals of agony into peaceful.
ORGANIZES sleep was for American sur
! gerry triumph second 10 none in the
long category OF its other brilliant achieve
/ meutsn
During the late civil war more wound d
| We're successfully and promptly cared for
IMAM ever before In history. There is
hardly Zone in the body, - ne continues,
winch, when broken has not been beue-
nUed by the American plan of treatment.
1t would be difficult to enumerate what
mas been done by Americans in the way
OF devising new surgical Instruments and
modifying and adapting old ones"
Americans were also first TO accept
| aSceptlc surgery, first advocated by Sir
| Joseph, Lister, Scotchman. Cleanliness
IN surgery marked an epoch, The first
man 10 invade the abdominal region with
a knife was a kentuckian. Ephraim
SlcDoweH The entire professional
| brotherhood was against him, and during
the performance of the first operation an
angry mob surro lnded the house pre-
pared TO outrage him should the ''das-
tardly experiment. fail
j. Marion Sims. a southern surgeon, in
vented entirely new methods for the sur
gfcdii treatment OF fcnIaie- truu0fCs. ffe
! founded the Woman's HospiJal in New
I ork city, and attained world wide fame
monument will soon be erected to his
memory III New York park the first
| public tribute to surgical services ever
| known IN New York city. The operation
for appendicitis was of American origin
Bobbs, an American, was the first to try
the bold evacuation of the gall bladder
by external incision in 1867. Sims, when
Garfield received his fatal wound, sug-
| gasted laparotomy for the finding Of the
ball. Had the wound been inflicted in
thcse-times the operation would undoubt-
edly have been performed
1t is now possible to operate with sue
| cess on all important abdominal organs.
| portions of diseased intestiucS are now
cut away, the severed ends being united
| by stitches, the intestinal current is arti-
| hclally switched from its course by the
| opening and entwining of ad Joining intes-
tlnal loops, new communications are made
! between the intestines and the stomach,
and between the gail bladder and intes-
tines. IumOrs are removed from the
stomach liver, pancras and kidney; and
other intestinal organs are removed al
most with impunity. while many of the
! organs themselves are lncised with suisse
quent recovery Of the pa lent" 1t is
within short period that O'Dwyer's in
tubatiOn tubes tor suaocaJiye Group put in
their claim for recognition.
In operative surgery improvements
of AmericaN origin have also marked the
general progress. The cunning trckery
! OF the recOnstructive art caused trans
| planted SkinHaps to grow in new places,
| correcting hideOus detormiIics about the
face, and virtually reforming parts which
| had been preViouSl y,deS trOyed by accident
or disease. The nose, the mouth, the
CHEEKS, and even the eyelids took new
shape and substance. Sa Dine formed the
basis of a new nose by attaching the fore
finger OF the patient to the forehead, al
! lowing it to grow there, and afterward
amputating the finger from the hand.
Another American succeeded in supply
ing new cheek by first growing an at
tached arm flap to the forefnger of the
/ patient, and in turn severing the arm at
tachment, carrying the hnger, with its
| growing tap. to the face, sewing the flap
in place, and afteward liberating the fin
! ger. The skin of the arm thus became
the substance of the check"
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
The roll of honor, incomplete but glo-
rious, limited at in DR.. Shrady's remark
able Forum article Includes Morton,
Jackson, Wells, Valentine Mott, GurdOn
! Buck, James l.. Little, Lewis A. Sayre.
! Ephraim Mcdowell, Kimball the broth
ers Atlee, Peas'ee, Thomas. j. Marion
Sims, Willard Parker, Bull, McBurney,
| Stimson, Norris. Bobbs. Alb G, Murphy,
O'Dwyer, Horace Green, Buck, Post,
| Sabine. Girdner. sim, BiCelOw. Stephen,
! Smith, Wyeth, Emmett, Gouley, Phelps,
| Sexton, Howard, James r. Wood, Letter
| man and Dalton. 1t sholld be remem-
bered that these are the names only OF the
men who have made discoveries. If, ad-
I ded to them were the names of the Amer
| leans whose surprising skill has been in
| magically utilizing the inventions and dis
co cries OF others, the roll would stretch
out to glorious length. Surely these men,
| by prolonging human life and easing pain,
have earned recognition at least as CRATE
ful as that we accord our warriors for
scientific killing or our statesmen for good
politics!
MEDICINE PROPER.
OF medicine proper DR.. Shrady has
many hopes. Its principal recent devel-
opment," said he, has been along the
lines of ARCHAEOLOGICAL study and discoy-
ery-in 1Cstigdtion OF the specific causes
OF disease This is as yet more theory
than fact. bat it is very promising.
"A new era of both medi inc and sur
gerry is at hand" said DR.. Shrady in
answer 10 another question. I'VE are
studying on broader principles now. t
is getting to be recognized that pre- ention
is the great thing 1t is with disease as
it is with garden. Seed and soil must
come together before there can be growth.
If we can attack the seed and make the
soil less fertile, we would be doing bet
ter thing thau we would be doing by kill
ing the growth Il ter having given IL an
opportunity to start. We can then
prevent the roots Of organic disease
| from ora ming foothold in the bodies of