The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-11-09
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Sue
cessfully Performed as Matter Of Course.
Most Recent the Work Of Dr. Karl Care of Berlin Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part Of Her Own Throat to Convert
Her Idiot Daughter Into Bright Little Girl

New York-Medical men here and
abroad are awaiting with considera.
bic interest a report from Berlin Civ
lng complete details OF a most daring
and unusual surgical operation per
formed there a few weeks ago.
An idiot child. the six-year-old
( daughter OF Mrs. Louis Wolr. a resi-
dent Of Berlin. has been converted
into an intelligent being by the proc
ess OF grating part Of the mothers
I thyroid gland upon the childs pan
creas- Reduced 10 palmer language
this means that part OF the mothers
throat has been transferred by the
grating process 10 gland. or tissue,
lying directly al the back OF the stom-
sch- BY this operation the dull. in.
active brain OF little Lena woln has
been awakened so that II is now per.
forming the duties for which It was
intended.
This. in the history OF medical
science. is without a parallel. not only
because such an operation was never
attempted before, but also because
OF is seeming vagueness. The idea
OF grating part OF the throat OF a
mother 70 the pancreas gland OF her
child with the expectation OF convert.
ing the child from idiocy to a normal.
mental condition would seem al first
glance unworthy OF serious consider.
alton But Dr.. Karl Care. professor
OF surgery in the medical faculty OF
Breslau university. TO whom the oper.
alton is credited. did exactly what has
been described above. and recent de-
spatches from Berlin declare that the
operation has been pronounced a com.
plete success.
Professor Garre Is an eminent Ger. /
man surgeon whose success in the
transplanring OF organs from one ami.
nal TO another and even from the
lower animals 70 human beings. has I
attracted the attention and admira /
ton Of surgical men all over the .
world When his report OF how he
changed Lena Wolf from an idiot into
a bright and intelligent little girl is
completed 1t will form a valuable ad.
ID ton 10 the list of modern miracles
II surgery.
An Idiot From Birth.
From the details OF the case al.
ready received from Germany it ap-
pears that Lena Wolf was born an
idiot six years ago. says the New
y ork World Reason never dawned
for her as in other babies. She had
come into the world without one ap-
parent spark Of intelligence and
seemed doomed 10 pass her whole life
without knowing the Joys and sorrows
Of living
Her case was called 20 the attention
Of Professor Care. who was inter.
ested from the very beginning, be
cause IN II he saw possibility OF be
Ing able TO prove the correctness OF a
Theory on which he had been at work
This involved the probable action or
influence that certain substances or
secretioas found IN the ductless
glands Of the human body have upon
the blood.
II Is the blood, as everybody knows,
that feeds the brain. keeping II active
and clear and in good working order.
n the blood Is thin or sluggish the
brain is first 10 record that fact The
great German surgeon knew that the