Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
MARVELLOUS SURGERY.
Astonishing Foats Now Being Performed with the Knife.
Persons Living Who Hnvo Been Deprived of Their windpipes -- Lives Saved by Soms Wonderful Oper-
 ntions.

q loss at all says the New York World.
 A flow persons have been thus distin-
 gpished and their lives have been saved
 os consequence. l'he operation is
 exceedingly difficult and delicate, To
 the lay mind 1t seems impossible, but
 we are fast learning that the modern
 great surgeon does not include this
 word in his vocabulary.
 The iugular vein has had more glory
 than any other blood vessel. The most
 ignorant person knows it's location and
 that to cut it means certain death.
 "Ill hit him on the jugular," is com
 mon expression among prizc-ighters
 and toughs. When man gets hat on
 jugular he usually goes down and be- comes speeches. for minute or two,
 but the juCular is no more responsible
 for that than the big toe. There is little shining cord-a nervc--iust back of the jugular which controls speech and respiration. When forccful blow is struck in the region of tho jugular this nerve is paralyzed and what is technically known as knockout re- suits
 Tho jugular is nearly m inch in diam eter, and it will be readily understood how easily one can bleed Co death if it is suddenly opened It lies directly un- derncath the great muscle on the sidc of the neck which shows up SO promi- nently in an athlete when he turns his head Except in a very fleshy person, Q cut of half an inch in depth will readily reach it, |
 Tho removal of a piece of the iugular is iustitiable in case of a large abscoss, tumor, or growth of any kind on the neck or of inflammation of the walls of the vein end the tissue about it. The latter is very rare. Unlike the removal of the vermuorm appendix, the removal of the juPular win never become a
 fad" Seldom, indeed, is there any need of it,
 There arc a great number of nerves in the region of the jugular. To cut ono of them is serious. For instance, tho nerve already mentioned. which lies next to tho vein, controls tho func- tions of speech and respiration These nerves intersect each other like rivers, highways and railroads on very small map. To cut out piece of the jugular is somewhat like putting your pencil down on this map when you are blind. folded without touchinga river, high way, or a railroad. But the surgeon knows the exact location of each little shining nerve, each little vein, from long study, and his scalpel is sharp and his toneh is sure.
 The flesh and tissue nrc cut away and the vein is lifted up clear of both, look ing like full hose when tho water is turned on, while ali the time tho great muscle is held apart by forliea steel hooks something like sugar tougs A pair of clamps, shaped like blunt scissors, with rough surfaces, is fast cncd just above the point where the upper cut is to be made Suddenly the tube colIapses, just as the hose does when the water is turned off, for the output of blood from the brain has been shut of. 4 second pair of clamps is fastened just below where the cut B to be made. Next two strips of catgut or of fine silk arc tied tightly around just above tho upper pair Of clamps and just below the lower pair, and all that is left to do is Co cut out the intcrven- ing piece. The whole operation is per formed by the slsiuful hands of two or three surgeons more quickly than it is told
 In three months time the catgut or Che silk will have been assimiiated into the system, blood clot will have formed at tho inlet of the vein at the base of tho head, and what was once the walls of thc vein will have become a useless tube, which will also be gradually assimilatcd, while tissue will form in its place. E
 But how does the impure blood from the brain now find its way back to bc purified? is tho qucstionthat iS natural ly asked Just here is where nature asserts her versatility, adaptability and rcsOurcefuiness. She makes the jugular on tho other side of the neck and the numerous small veins do the work and they do it so satisfactorily that the patient never knows the differ cncc.
 The first operation for the removal of the jUgular was performed in India by an English surgeon, Dr. Smith, on an East Indian, who had such bad tumor on his nccl, that death was certain. To cut down and take ont piece of the famous old vein was simply rash ex- pertinent in which Dr. Smith himself had very little confidence. As soon as the news of its success was distributed through the medical world tho vein im- ncdiatcly lost some of its great prestige, and the tumor of the neck much of its horror. You may be sure that Dr Smith did not tell the Indian what he was about to do or the poor fellow would have probably died of fright on the spot, for the ignorant natives of India regard the jugular as the seat of all life.
 But the prestige of tho jugular has received even q greater blow. A few weeks ago in a case of inflammation of both sides of the neck and the result ing disease of the walls of both jugulars and the tissue around them, of Q pa- ticnt in a British hospital, another rash experiment was attempted -- the re- noyal of both jugulars. IL succeeded. The patient is upon his feet again and lively as he ever was, and to be slashed in the iugulur has now no tcrrors for him, In his instance 1t is shown, of course. that the smaller veins will so en- large their capacity that they can do the work of both iugulars--somethi that has even made the wizards of surgery rub their eyes and wonder.
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 Victoria, queen of Great Britain and impress of India, has just given her oval and parental consent to one o1 Ter relatives entering upon profes, ional career in order to earn his living