The Saint Paul globe., 1903-04-19
YOUNGEST PATIENT
TO ENDURE THE
SHOCK.
Heroic Measures were Neces-
sary to Save Little Boys
Life, and Doctors of French
Hospital Undertook Them.

The following, taken from the San Fran
cisco Examiner, will be of local interest,
as DIR. Carnac-Marquis resided in ST. Paul
for years:
The youngest patient in the world to
undergo the operation for the removal Of
the vermifOrm appendix is Henri Theo-
dore FourreS
Henri Theodore Fourres is not as long
as his name
He is, in fact, a tiny baby-just two
months and twenty days old when he was
laid upon the operating table to under
go the surgeons knife, and the operation
he has undergone on that account is one
of the most remarkable in the history Of
Henri Theodore Fourres, just ten days
after the operation, is convalescent and
doing nicely, thank you; whole lot bet
ter than was expected to tell the truth,
happier and healthier, in fact than he
has been before in all his brief life: in a
pretty little swinging white enameled nest
OF crib about as big as a market basket,
in big, airy room at 251S Howard street,
the private sanitarium of DR.. George H.
Juilly.
+. z. Canac- Marquis, the chief surgeon of
the French hospital.
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Henri Tourres.
Shortly after his birth 1t was found
that he was suffering from a serious case
of congenital hernia in which the small
intestine and the Secum, which is the
technical name for the larger intestine
We're coming through the axerniaI ring
The case was so serious that there was
Dut one chance for the baby-to operate.
There is no record in surgery of so
grave an operation on so young a baby.
but Dr.. Canac- Marquis. with the zest of
the scientist, determined to give the baby
the one chance in his power-and per-
maps establish a precedent.
The operation was performed at DIR.
july Sanltarlum. Every preparation was
made and every anaesthetic precaution
taken exactly as for grown person
How 1t Was Done.
The tiny atom of humanity-the little.
helpless, suffering baby was laid upon the
operating table and chloroform admins
tered until the little body lay limp and
passive. Then with all the exquisite skill
OF modern surgery the operation was per-
formed-the incision was made it was
round that the hernial sac had grown to
the Verm1form appendix, necessitating
their removal together, the protruding In
1estlnes We're put into place, the aperture
closed, the e dressings applied, all in three
The baby remained under the influence
OF the chloroform an hour and half and
came out beautifully" the devoted nurse
says with none of the agitations and hys-
terra and sickness that chloroform usually
proVokes in the adult
Nothing could have been more gratifying
10 doctor and nurse, more comforting to
Inc anxious watching mother than the Wav
That baby behaved after the operation
lie was operated upon at II o'clock in
1he morning, and at o'clock in the after
noon ne was given nouriShment by his
1nother; ne fretted and cried a little in the
nght-chief1y because nourishment was
denied him; he was given water in very
small quantities and quieted to rest; his |
temperature ran as high as once as 1O2
OUT never was cause of alarm; and now
danger Is past and he is on the high road
OF conValescence, much to the JOY of the
young father and mother and much to
the professional delight of the doctor
Happy In His Crib.
AS he lies fiat on his back in his little
white nest of a crib, for he can't be prop
ped up yet he looks just as pink and
white and soft and plump and dimpled as
any paby of his age Cor rather lack of
age) that never was near an operating ta-
Ole and never shifted chloroform He is
Wen nour1shed-So well nourished. indeed
that he has those creases in his wrists.
10 mark where the soft little arms end and
the pink little hands begin-that fond
mothers call bracelets; and he has voice
When he lifts is in protest at a we'll re-
iinembered dinner hour that doesn't bring
MS meal with customary promptness that
occasions no anxiety about his lung power
He IS: in fact, the hero of the most re-
ilarkaple operation ever performed on a
young person of his tender age-and he
is immune from appendicitis
1t Is most unusual for very Young chill
dren TO undergo such grave Operations
successfully on account Of the severity of
tne shock and the insufficient vitality of
young children, so that the steady and
uninterrupted recovery of little Henri
theodore Fourres at the age of two
months and twenty days established a
world record for himself and DIR. Canac
marquis. or the French hospital.