The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-14
FIRST NORTH OF CHICAGO.
The Physicians 1t Shipman Hs.pltsi Win
Distiuction by an OpesnsSen.


Dr.. Shipman has earned wide repu-
tattOn as surgeon in difiicuDt cases.
the LATEST in that line still more
brings him to the front. We promis-
ed few weeks ago to give few facts
regarding the operation on The. person
of ADAM Duff and the followiDgunder
glariDg headlines from the daily
papers brings our promise forc55ly to-
our minds
WEBSTER, S. D., Dec. 8.-Tbe Tu--
her method of producing anestllesia,
known as the subarachnoidean injec-
tiOn OF cocaine, has been successfully
used in surgical operation in this
city by Doctors Hash and Lull. house
physicians of st. Mary's hospital
The patient, Jacob Schacher, was
an old soldier who was badly injured
some mOBths ago by falling from a
haystack upon the handle of pitch
fork which penetrated his body. The
wound developed into a rectal fstula.
necessltating an operation. The en-
feebled condition of the patient pre-
vented the use of the ordinary anes-
theticS, SO it was determined to try
the new method.
1t proved wonderful success. as
thrOughoub the operation the patient
chatted with the surgeons about the
operation, declaring he felt no pain
whatever. AS matter of fact, he
was not aware the work was being
done until the operation was most
over. The only symptom noticeable
was when the patient remarked his
back felt warm.
The doctors claim to have been the
first physicians to use the Tafier
method west of Chicago, and are re-
ceiving congratulations from their
medical brethren oyer their success.
The method above mentioned was
used here on Nov. %, when Drs.
Shipman, Wunder and Ayres of the
Shipman hospital assisted by DR..
Richardson of the Soudan hospital
removed "a rectal cancer from the per-
son Of Adam Duff, cutting away
about six inches of the lower end of
the bowel and making anew opening
several inches above the old one.
Adam is doing as we'll as could be ex-
pected considering the seriousness of
the case and informed IL M1NER
representative few days after the
operation that he would soon. be as
well as ever.
In thirteen minutes after the
Tufier method was used. the patient
was ready for the knife and during
the time the physicians were at work
nearly two hours, the patient was
without feeling excepting in one in
stance when the iDtestines were pull
ed, causing slight twitching. Dur
ing all the time the patient was chat
ting with the physicians and watch
ing them intently in their work.
The Tufier method has only been
known for about year originating in
France, and has only been tried in
this country for~the past six months.
The New York and Chicago papers
have been full of it., especially the
medical journals but so far we have
noticed no instance where The method
had been used north of Chicago.
Stripped of medical verblage, it is the
injection of cocaine into the spinal
cord, producing temporary paralysis
or deadening OF the sensibili ~ of the
body from the diaphragm down. So
complete is the method, DR.. Shipman
informs us, that ii man under its in
fluence could burn his legs to stumps
in ii fire and not feel it.
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