The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-08

and taken his seat in the House oil
Lords. He went to England two years
| ago to engage in business and had
no intention of following such a course.
It is now said he has been legally
adopted by wealthy Englishman as
the heir to his estates and persuaded
to assume his titles.
SURGICAL DISCOVERY.
NEW YORK. March PA celebrated
Breslau surgeon is expected to make at
this weeks annual German surgical
Congress the first announcement of an
invention providing for the exposure
of the human lungs for operation pur-
poses, says q. Herald dispatch from
London.
Experts already acquainted with the
process say that the invention win
widely increase the range of chest
surgery and operations in the region
of the aeosophagus and throat
It consists of an air tight cabinet.
holding the patient and two. operators,
the patients head protruding through
an opening at the side. The principle
involved is the reduction of the air
pressure around the exposed lung SO as
to prevent its collapse.
Experiments on animals have proved
completely successful. After the
fanimals were anaesthetized, the air
within the cabinet was pumped out
sufficiently to lower the mercury a
fraction of an inch. The lungs, upon
pressure, filed up with air and emptied
themselves regularly and the heart ac-
ton continued uninterrupted except
by anaesthesia- When the air pressure
within the cabinet was increased the
lungs Immediately collapsed and re-
NAMED collapsed until the air was
again rarified. when respiration became
normal.
REMOVAL OF THE TONGUE.
NEW YORK. March 2s.-After two
weeks of preparation surgical opera
ton for the removal of the tongue has
been successfully performed upon
Thomas Mcguire, well known thea
trical treasurer, formerly of San Fran
cisco, but who has been attached to
New York play-houses for several
years.
Mcguire was victim of cancer at
the roots of his tongue, caused by ex-
cessive smoking. A few weeks ago the
doctors informed him that his only
chance for life lay in the entire re-
moval of the tongue. He cheerfully |
submitted and said in bidding fare /!
we'll to his friends who gathered
around the operating table, that he |
should soon learn to talk with his |
ingers. The surgeons now believe he !
will rapidly recover his health.
TARGET PRACTICE.
FRESNO. Cal. March 2s.-Deputy |
Sheriff E. d. vogelsang. brother of
the State Fish Commissioners, has re-
,esved letter from another brother, /
Senior Lieutenant c. T. vogelsang of |
Evans flagship, the Ken |
lucky, detailing a remarkable record |
made in Manila Bay by the |
battleship Wisconsin with a 13-inch !
gun during target practice. It stands, !
It is said, without a parallel in the /
history of naval target practice. The /
record was made under command of |
the lieutenant, who trained the gun
himself Some idea Of the remarkable |
teat may be formed from the statement |
that nine bulls eyes were made out of |
ten shots in ten minutes by a 13-fnch |
gun firing at a floating canvas target |
only twenty feet square at a distance |
Of three and seven-tenths miles. while |
the battleship was under full head OF !
steam The projectiles used weighed |
l,150 pounds each.
Lieutenant Vogelsang was born in !
Calaveras county. but was raised in |
Stockton, where he went to school.
THE DIET HEARS FROM TOGO.
TOXIC, March 2s-4 p. n1.-Admiral |
Baron Yamamoto Minister of Marine. /
read Vice-Admiral Togo's account of /
the sixth Japanese attack on Port /
Arthur in the lower house of the Japa- /
nese Diet this afternoon. The report /
was received with tremendous ap- |
plause
Admiral Yamamoto referred feelingly |