The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-09
MANN's OPERATION.
Believed That It Was Highly Sue
 cessful.

Buffalo, Sept. s.-The Express tomor- row will say regarding the first "pdrt' tion performed on the President:
 The operation performed at the euiers, encS hospital left no need for sec1no operation to follow immediately Tne full details of the operation ncreIoIdd ncred by pr. Matthew J. Mann. His first as as siktant was Dr. Herman Minter. HIS second assistant was. Dr. John P3rmcnee ter. His third assistant was Pr be a1 Mee tbe he Exposition g:ounds at the time ot M tnc traeedy, and placed his service at the disposal of the President: pr: .T Ne.s0n, ,aa,nn n and took the notes Dc. Eugene Wasoin of the Marine Hospital. gave ths anaes- thetic. Pr. Rxey 1rr.r,S;i S ,a1d aL th ,h ii IaSt t It1r. Park arrived at i'ie close ot the. P eration It was pr. Mann who wieideo the knife. - . =. ,,,,,,r A cut about five inches long was mace. 1t was found nee sssary t. urn up lne stomach of the Pres dent in ordtr 10 iet's opening in the front wall of the stomach was small. aaI 1t was cave Ciy closed with sutures, after Wnlcn search was made t3G sfGnca a%s "i'S Fms " hole where the bullet went out of the stomach was larger than the hole in the front wall of the stomach m IscI, It ieas,ad mas d wOSnu nS ra 9ged Ii was sewed up in three Iavers. This wound was larger than tns wound where the bullet entered Ine stomaS%s because the ball In Its course Soucad %,sues through ahead of It.
 AHt In turning up the stomach. an act that was absolutely necessary anu was peI p1e formed by pr Mann VIII nf tbs bs coStent. St ' of the stomach might go into Ine ai aDdonli- nal cavity and as a result cause perltonl- tis It so happened that tnere was very little in the president % %StoInacn at tne lime of the operation. Moreover, subse
 nuant developments tend 10 snow tnat fhis feature of the operation was grand " successful and that none or the con- tsrts of inc stomach entered the abdom- final cavity. If any of the contents nao entered the cavity. the probabiiity Is that before now peritonitls would nave
 Tn this connection it is of interest that some experienced surgeons do not mlnd the temperature at S m condtion 'u, so long as the pulse is in the proper ratio. in a big operation like this, they say 1t is very common for the tempePature 70 remain around log or even 103 But If the temperature had dropped and the pulse had accelerated. it would have been danger signal of peritonitis setting m. It is of interest also to know that aIter an oneration of this kind, the peristaltic or compressive action in the abdominai cav itv ceases or becomes retrograde. Aiter fha oneration. as soon as the patent masses any gas, through the rectum, 1t ts "a sign that peristaltic action has re- commenced normally and that the danger of peritonitis was practically over, Al, AT fer an operation such as was performed on the President, the surgeons Wlsn to know at once, even when gas IS passen, for they take it then that the paten1I 1 ls comparatively safe from perltonlts. Ihe point of importance in connection Wltn these facts is that the President yester- day passed gas and later there was Tar the bulletins issued by the surgeons, the basis for hope seems stronger.