Evening star., 1902-08-22

chloroform, his side opened and the wound
was stitched up. A few days later pleurisy
interviewed and a very rare disease, phlebitis,
or Inflammation of the veins of the left leg.
But under proper remedies these symptoms
passed away and the man made a perfect
recovery
The daughter of a police officer at Roch-
ester, England, was recently taken to st.
Bartholomew Hospital in that town suf-
fering severe pains in the heart. After an
X-ray examination 1t was decided that an
operation must take place. A large needle
was found sticking in the girls heart. 1t
was successfully removed, and, like the
French soldier, the patient got quite well
again.
Equally remarkable have been some other
cures wrought by modern surgery. Among
these is the case of Jay Lutz an overseer
in the Harman quarries in West Virginia.
A mass of slate fell and crushed his head
so badly that Lutz was brought to the sur
face apparently dead. The owner of the
quarries Is DR.. Harman, and, seeing what
desperate state Lutz was in he resolved to
resort to a desperate expedient. He re-
moved large portion of the lacerated
brain from the injured mans head and re-
placed 1t with part Of the brain of heifer.
The operation was a most tedious one but
it proved quite successful
One of the most daring operations per-
formed by a surgeon had for its subject the
wife of Rear Admiral Ferry, distinguished
Spanish officer. Two years ago the lady
was suffering with consumption, the left
lung being so badly diseased that the case
mad been pronounced by doctors to be hope
less. Professor Molle, demonstrator of sur
gerry in the University Hospital at Madrid
had written book mentioning the possibil-
ty Of the cure of consumption by surgical
means. Sonora Ferry saw this treatise and
Immediately sent for the professor and
asked him as last hope to try the treat
ment. All preparations being made Dr.
Molle opened the chest and laid bare the
lung, which was thoroughly cleansed with
ant1sepuc solution and cauterized. In an
astonishingly brief time the lady recovered
Less serious, but in its way equally star
Ting, was an operation performed at the
Maritime Hospital, Cherbourg last Decem-
Der. An artilleryman named Robert met
with an accident by which four fingers of
his right hand were cut completely off at
the second joint. The surgeons Immediate
ly reJoined the severed members. They
united perfectly, and the soldier actually
regained almost complete use of his hand.
Any doctor will tell you that you had
much better break bone than rupture a
muscle. Such cases. when the muscle is
an important one, usually result in life
long lameness. The celebrated French sur
geon Championniere recently performed a
clever operation for an injury of this de-
scription. His patient was a laborer, who
had received heavy blow from falling
ladder across the leg just above the knee
which had resulted in the fracture of the
triceps tendon above the kneecap.
When the leg was opened it was found
almost impossible to get the torn tendon
together, so much had 1t retracted. The
surgeon had to thread silver wire through
and through the upper part of the muscle
and connest these transverse wires with
others connected with the kneecap Within
seven weeks the patient could walk without
difficulty