The age-herald., 1898-01-14
IN THE REALM
 OF THE DOCTORS

The very latest news from Zurich, Switzz erland, shows that Mrs. Anna Landes, the woman silk weaver, is enjoying better health without a stomach than she did with one. The operation was performed in September, and at once she was given scraped meat, oatmeal, brandy and Malaga wine, none of which, according to formed notions, could be digested without ston17 ach. Mrs. Landes digested them well enough to walk about the ward of the hosS pital in a month, and now she is a nurse in the hospital She is gaining In weight and strength. There are dyspeptic germ enough to hope that this case affords chance foF a stomachless generation. But alas while Mrs. Landes has no stomach, yet she com- plains at times of feeling "sick at her stomach" It is the old story of the ans putated limb over again.. Further news from Mrs. Landes Is eagerly awaited. If she keeps on getting well and stout, there will have to be some operations upon the medical books that are wiser than owls over stomachic digestion. Dr. Schlatter's new departure promises to lead up to an excision of deal of alleged medical sci@ ence.
 Dr. Schenk, a professor of the University of Vienna and president of the embryologi- cal institute, is cretainly not quack, and when he says he possesses the secret of the sex question he certainly thinks he has a grip upon the most difficult problem that has ever perplexed mankind. But the doct tors are incredulous. Books have been written and experiments made, says one of them, and we are where we started. It is said millions of human bodies have been dissected in the search for the secret that Dr. Schenck says he possesses. But does he? Dr. Schrady is inclined to think he has revived the old theory of nutrition-the theory that accounts for the sending of more daughters to the rich and more sons to the poor. The children of the weak. poorly nourished mother are oftener sons than daughters. A walk through the slums of any great city will prove this.
 But if Dr. Schenck absolutely has tho secret what will become of poor ChinaY Girl babies are at discount there now, and if John Catches on to Dr. Schenk s discovery, there will be none in China, and then there will be a. pretty how-dy-do, And in fact such a discovery would have deep meaning and effect in all countriesA At first it might threaten the human races but in the long run it would probably noq change conditions of population except in China. It would be too wild to describe it's effects in that country as revolutionary, It would more likely act as an extermts nator, and the Russian, and the Germany and the Englishman would have no one to trade with and to rob after all.
 Out in San Francisco a man was in dan4 ger of instant death from the effects of an injury that distended the aorta to the point almost of rupture. The aorta, 1t may be remarked, is the great artery leading direce from the heart The physicians made coil of silver wire and succeeded in placing it within the chest over the distended aortas The patient has worn the coil about three months, and the physicians now entertain the hope that the artery has been reduced to it's normal size. If so 1t will lead to similar efforts in aortal trouble, which ard by no means rare, and many man may yet have a silver lining.
 It was once thought that the negro race was wholly exempt from stone In the piaos der but fuller investigation shows they are not The trouble is less frequent in the nego-that is all. Statistics show that one white man in every 1,732 is thus affecteds while only one black man in every oo,ao1 is subject to the disease. Emancipation' ia is believed, has brought this trouble upon the negro It has changed their conditions of life, and so has fastened upon them white mems diseases. pr. Matas of New Orleans says the typical African diseasea have disappeared, and in their places arise tioned, and the skill of physicians is mar<
 The triumphs of surgery are unques~ tioned, and the skill of physcains is mars velous, but there are some cases quite be1 yond them all. A few days ago a boy died in New York City because he grew too big He was 19 years old six feet two inches high, weighed about 200 pounds and enjoyed unusual muscular strength. But as he grew he became weaker. He died of too much size.
 About a month ago the eastern papers mentioned the death of one Dr. J. W. Green at his shanty-home, near Wading river, in New Jersey. Years ago Dr. Green was q prominent physician of New York, wealthy apparently enjoying in the metropolis a large and profitable practice. Suddenly he decided to become a recluse, to leave his wife in his New York home, and to arrangd his affairs preparatory to an abandonment of the world. No known reason existed foF such a course. But he held firmly to his determination, going to the lonesome spot where he died about month ago. His sold companion was young man, to whom hd left fortune in securities. He wished to be buried in a grave that had been kept in readiness beside the shanty, but his widow decided to bury the remains in New yor,-