The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-22
GROWS A NEW NOSE.
Sergeant Freeman Replaces the One He Lost
in Battle.

The case of Sergt. Freeman of the
Twenty lancers. who has been
supplied with new nose in place of one
he left on the battlefield of Omdurman
recalls other triumphs of surgery no
less remarkable. says the London Mail.
Not long ago a most exceptional case
transpired at an Odessa hospital. The
patient was a female, who had formed
a mania for swallowing curious odds
and ends and it was for the removal
of these that an extraordinary surgical
operation was performed. In the sto-
mach were found over 40 different arti-
cles, including fork, two small spoons,
three nails, key and eight buttons.
Many of the articles had been swallow
ed several months previously.
Novel, too, was an operation carried
out at the Edinburgh royal infirmary.
A farmer was suffering from dis
eased leg bone, brought about by an
accident. He came to the Institution
and was put under the care of Mr.. Mil
Ter, the surgeon, who removed the dis
eased portion and substituted an OK rib.
In a few weeks the man was about
again, and the limb was as strong and
healthy as ever.
At the Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin
a man without eyelids had those of a
newly killed pig stitched over his eyes.
Prof. Bilroth of Vienna on one occa-
sion had man brought to him with his
legs, fingers, nose and ears frozen. The
patients life was despaired of. Both
legs had to be amputated, and only
one finger on each hand could be saw
ed, but the nose was replaced by an ar
tiffcial one and the ears were clipped
The man was supplied with artificial
legs and feet, and was soon able to get
about assisted by a couple of sticks
With the use of only one finger he man.
aged to write very we'll.
A short time ago at one of the public
institutions in Paris, two young but
expert surgeons performed a feat which
will ever rebound to their credit A
woman, hailing from the neighborhood
of Monte Carlo, had got mixed up in a
street brawl, and was brought in for
attendance. The doctors discovered
that she had lost her lip, and they re-
solved on a bold plan, and one that sue
ceeded admirably. They supplied her
with a new lip, taking the needed piece
of flesh from the patients arm. Apro-
pos of grating flesh, a very remarkable
operation was carried to a successful
issue by another Partisan medicu dur
ing last summer. A boy of fifteen was
brought to him who, by an accident,
had lost part of his tongue, in conse-
speak A portion of a bullocks tongue
after being dressed to prevent decay,
was stitched on to the stump Of the
lads tongue, and within a month he
was able to converse as well as before
his mishap.
It was but the other day that the
whole world was astounded by the ex-
traordinary case of a millionaire who
had been struck down by lockiaw,
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The physicians saw it was a desperate
case, and if the patients life was to be
saved desperate measures would have
to be taken. The patient was put I'M
der chloroform, and then the surgeons
opened his skull and injected a certain
fluid into the brain.
AS if by magic the transfixed jaw re-
Taxed, and within an hour the patient
was able to move his mouth and all its
ramifications almost as well as before.
According to the latest details the cure
has been complete
But the most wonderful, triumph of
surgery on record was achieved by Dr.
Lannelangue, at the Paris Children's
Hospital. He operated on an idiot
child whose skull had stopped growing
so that at four years of age it was only
one-third the normal size.
Believing that the idocy was due to
compression of the brain, the doctor di-
vided the skull longitudinally and kept
the edges of the bone from uniting.
Fresh deposits of bone took place, and
the skull gradually expanded to almost
its proper size. The result was that the
IDIOT child is now growing up into SEN
sible and intelligent girl. To such a re-
markedly high state of perfection has
surgery reached that there would seem
to be hardly any portion of the human
machine that the surgeon cannot sue
cessfully deal with.