Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-01
A REMARKABLE OPERATION
The Successful Removal Of the Stomach
from a Woman.
DR.. Brigham was the Surgeon and Adopted
Partly Original Methods - The
Patient Now Well.

The story of the successful re-
moval of woman's stomach three
months ago by Dr. G b. Brigham
at st. Luke's Hospital in San
Francisco, is publish d in all its
details by the Boston Medical and
Surg cal Journal. DIR. Brigham
is n brother of Professor W. Il.
Brigham of Honolulu.
DIR. Brigham followed the main
lines laid down by DIR. Carl
Schlatter in performing a like
operation on a woman in Zurich.
DR.. Brigham's operation differs
from that performed by Schlatter
in that he was able to unite the
lower end Of the esophagus di
rectly with the cut end of the
duodenum. The good judgment
of DR.. Brigham was amply vindi-
Gated by the result.
The portions of the report most
interesting to the lay reader are
aa follows:
Lora Maginni, widow and
housewife, 66 years OF age, had
complained of pain in her stomach
for the last year. She was able,
however, to digest her food until
Christmas time, when she vomited
any solid food that she took. Not
caring for bread and meat, she
confined herself to liquids and to
thickened gruels, and so was able
to keep her usual weight of 1876
pounds. She did not worry about
her forced abstinence from solid
food, because she was unable to
chew properly, having but six
teeth in the lower with no CORES
ponding ones in the upper jaw.
She is remarkably healthy
woman in other respects, having
a strong heart and lungs and a
clear complexion and good deal
of color in her cheeks, a woms n
OF simple tastes, born 10 the
country, in the north of Italy;
active, and a woman of good com
mon sense. 1t is difficult thing
to keep her in bed, in any ordina-
ry illness, and she does not com
plain Of pain, unless it is severe.
She went to DIR. Brigham first
in February for advice. His dag
nosis was cancer of the pylor us
and an operation for the removal
Of the growth was suggested.
The patient agreed to have the
operation performed and went to
st. Luke's Hospital.
On the Oath of February, 1898,
DR.. Samuel Boyd assisting, strict
intisepsis being observed, the
patient was etherized. The oper-
alton occupied two hours and a
quarter. There was practically
40 loss of blood in removing the |
Then follows a close descrip- |
ion Of the gradual improvement |
n health, her daily diet, pulse and
leart beats, etc, during her stay
IT eight weeks in the hospital.
The symptom which gave the
most anxiety after the operation
vas the restlesspess, which was
unusually marked. This was
Without doubt the result of the
urgical shock which was caused
y the removal of so important an
rgan as the stomach and the in
erfering with its vessels and
erves.
The patient was not worried
bout herself. All she wished for
vas to be restored to health.
low this was to be accomplished
he never asked, and up to the
me she left the hospital she did
OF know that her stomach had
cen removed. She now eats,
resses herself and performs all
rdinary duties around her home
Tithout any assistance. When
sked how she feels she SAYS
heerfully that the doctor has
lred her. {