The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-22
TYPHOID FEVER.
Now Cured by Surgery Through a
Remarkable Operation.
Chicago Tribune.)

Chicago Tribune)
Typhoid fever has been cured by an
operation. Paris surgeon has just
brought a patient out of seemingly
hopeless case of the disease, and the
method by which he did it constitutes
a distinct achievement in curative
science.
DR.. j. S. Dauriac, an eminent prac-
titioner of Paris, resorted to surgery
as a last remedy in a case which had
been given up. The patient, a young
man of II years, is now in full posses
sion of his health.
While the physician was convinced
that the, intestines could be cleaned
antiseptically and the Inflammation
thus reduced he would not have under
taken the dangerous operation if the
father of the young man had not urged
it and if it had not been that the pa
tient was doomed. and if it had not
been apparent that he could live but a
few days.
The fever had followed it's course for
twenty days and the case was seen to
be hopeless. The father, seeing the
urged the physician to perform the
operation as a last measure, and it
was decided to undertake it.
An incision about the length of the
index finger was made in the left side,
about two and a quarter inches inside
the forward and upper lilac spine, into
the peritoneum. This incision was just
sufficient to allow the physician to take
hold of the small intestine and draw
it out. A little shield was attached in
the peritoneum and in the deeper points
of the incision, with the convex side to-
ward the smaller intestine, and this
shield was fastened by catgut The
intestinal tumor was then opened and
cleaned out and the edges tied to the
skin. The wound was then closed up
infinitely and protected all around the
mouth of the intestine by sterilized
cotton, covered by a thick layer of
iodoformed collodion.
Afterward a Nelaton tube in flexible
rubber was introduced and the drain
age of infected matter from the inteS-
tines facilitated by the employment of
boiled water slightly cooled and sailed.
At the end of the second day the water
thus used seemed to be free from in
fected matter. From the first day
there was a noticeable improvement in
the patients condition. His tempera-
ture steadily decreased, and three days
after the operation it was lower than
it had been at any time since the be-
ginning Of the illness.
The physician then did not hesitate
to give his patient more or less solid
food, beginning with thick vermicelli
soup, then noodles and fine macaroni
cooked in water. Seven days after
ward the invalid ate an egg, followed
! by a lamb chop. From that time to the
recuperation was extremely rapid, and
the young man today is enjoying per-
| feet health.
In describing the details of the opera
| ton DIR. Dauriac said that probably
many American physicians had real
| lied the possibility of resorting to
surgery in the treatment of typhoid
cases and a relation to this operation
might prove interesting to them.
II was careful to select a point of
the intestine sufficiently removed from
the ileocaecal valve to avoid the center
of the liberation said the physician,
land not too much above the jujunum
to interfere with nutrition. 1 was
guided in the operation by the ecchy-
NOSE aspect presented in spots by the
/ exterior surface of the small intestine
the nearer 1 approached the largest OF
the intestines."
The achievement of the Paris physi-
| clan is greeted bt men of the profess
| sion in that city as one of the mem
orable surgical achievements of the