Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-03
MAnyrIs or srncnny.
somr Extraordinary Operations aud
SOME Wonderful Instruments.


some Wonderful Instruments.
This "Ronanee Of Surgery" is work no.
yet written, When the story OF the work
Of eminent Surgeons Is given to the world
In book form, II will form a record une-
cueled in interest aud at,ractyences. In /,
viii appear incidents excellng, from tho
marvelous and tysterlous point Of view.
oven the Arabian Nights Entertainment"
Here arc acme examples OF the marvela OF
modern surgery;
surgeons have now found out the useful.
meas OF electricity In their work. by its aid
tho Interior OF the human body ia actually
Illuminated. so that tho physean can gaEe
upon the internal mechanism OF tho patient
and mud out what Ia the matter. A abort
tiule ago a child was brought, to a London
surgeon TO be treated for indigestlon--so the
parent sald. IN, child said she felt some-
thing solid In her stomach a few momcns'
Questioning by the doctor brought out the
TACT that tho child had swallowed some
foreign substance. II was an easy thing to
SETTLE the question by lighting up the stom-
ach from within.
The inatrumont devised for this purpose
"a as simple az Il Is ingenious. Ii looks
hke an ordinary rubber tube to the end OF
which 2 buih OF glass IL attached This. with
Tue hulb end hrat % passed down tho throat
OF the patient, Just like an ordinary atom.
aoh tube. There Is no dlflculty about swal-
loNins II, as one who has never made such
an experiment might lmhrlne. A loon of
eopner wire extends through the entire
,enk.h OF the tube, Ito two ends. project
ing from the othcr extremity OF the rubber
worm, are attached TO tho battery.
u was but the work Of minute TO pass
sne rubber worm down the pationrs throat
oil sa..HI HNa.s
eleeVlc current was turned ON, and light.
equal IN power TO two candles, appeared
Wllhln the glass hulh. This light lmmln.
ated ihe inside OF the stomach no brightly
that II could actually be soon through tho
'front.' wall OF tho body. which exhibited a
rosy GLOW, Careful examination by tho
SURGEON showed that foreign body had
found Judgment In the organ He Identified
u by tho presence Of an opaque fpot
IN 'hlA way Il u often poHslble-aA was
inc case 10 the present instance to nnd out
what ais person whose Illness might ro-
main a mystery The digestive fluids act
70 powerfully as accompanying ageniB thar
ordinary substances are quelly dissolved
ny them Thus, most foreign bodies that
md their way into the stomach. aud cannot
pass out through the intestinal canal, are
soon eaten m. Accordingly tho notion
commonly hold by iguarpnt people that
frog or lizard can live and grow In a per-
sons stomach Is worry funny ono. Nor
need anybody entertain q dread lest a
cherry treo or other vegetation should de.
yelop IN HE Inside,
Tho electric Hight plays great part In
another operation. which may Justly be
called a surgical marvel, The operation Is
called tho "trAnslumiuatIon 81 the larynx
In recent case an electric lamp, somewhat
resembling a dark lantern with a power
ful Ions, was pressed against the outside Of
the throat In front directly over the
"Adam'a apple" The Adams apple" il
VI course. the voice box. containing tho
vocal cords. Close against this organ from
tho outside tho lens Of the lantern was
presaed. 30 that the concentrated light shune
through the throat wall,
So thin war this wall that The rays plcrold
r. and Illuminated tho voice bon within.
enabling iho physician by looking down The
patients Throat 10 examine ita interior aud
SOC n anYlhlng WAS wrong with the vocal
cords. just az This important organ OF
apoech was examined by electricity 49, liko-
Wise, the surgeon lights w the Inside u the
car, and investigates the condition Of thr
apparatus of h6aupg For tho same pur-
pose with tho eye the operator ~ c0ntunt
with Tho uHe OF gas Hight, throwing a re-
noctcd ray Into the dark chamber OF tho
organ VI vision by means nj a disc-shnpcd
mirror through a small holo M tho ccutor
N which ho secs tho rctinn brilliantly illum-
mated,
within the past lew years hcrc has boon
a complete revolution Ia the manufacture
Of surgical inatrumepts AntlHcptlc methods
now govern an operations Not only are
wounds kept froc from bacterial germs by
lpraylng thcn With preparations " carholls
acid and other Huhs,lncoE destructive 10
such NO. but all the tools employed by the
surgeon are sterllizcl by h8af Even the
drcHsinEf Hro cooked In an oven before th5y
arc applied. BY such means many opera
lions uro now performed with almost lnyarl-
able success,