Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible NowSuc-
cessfully Performed as Matter of Course.
Most Recent Is the Work of Dr. Karl Care Of Berlin in Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part of Her Own Throat to Convert
Her Idiot Daughter Into Bright Little Girl

ANCn, iOlh."NlCulCdl IuCu hSl0 inu
abroad are awaiting with considera-
tble interest report from Berlin CIV
Ing complete details of most daring
=and unusual surgical operation per.
formed there few weeks ago.
An idiot child, the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Louis Wolff, resi-
dent of Berlin, has been converted
Into an intelligent being by the proc
less of grating part of the mothers
thyroid gland upon the child's pam
~creas. Reduced to palmer language,
this means that part of the mothers
Sthroat has been transferred by the
4grafting process to gland, or tissue,
lying directly at the back of the stom-
ZACH. BY this operation the dull, in
: active brain of little Lena Wolff has
been awakened so that 1t is now per-
forming the duties for which 1t was
intended.
This, in the history of medical
science, Is without parallel, not only
because such an operation was never
attempted before, but also because
aof its seeming vagueness. The idea
of grating part of the throat of a
mother to the pancreas gland of her
child with the expectation of convert
ing the child from idiocy to a normal,
mental condition would seem at first
glance unworthy of serious consider
-ation. But Dr. Karl Garre, professor
~of surgery in the medical faculty of
NSBreslau university, to whom the oper-
yJation is credited, did exactly what has
been described above, and recent de-
sspatches from Berlin declare that the
~operation has been pronounced a com.
Iplete success.
Professor Garre is an eminent Ger.
5man surgeon whose success in the
rtransplanting of organs from one ami.
-mal to another and even from the
nower animals to human beings, has
sattracted the attention and admira
-tion of surgical men all over the
world. When his report of how he
changed Lena Wolff from an idiot into
"a bright and intelligent little girl is
completed it will form valuable ad
edition to the list of modern miracles
<of surgery.
An Idiot From Birth.
From the details of the case al
ready received from Germany it ap
pears that Lena Wolff was born ar
idiot six years ago, says the New
York World. Reason never dawned
tfor her as in other babies. She hat
come into the world without one ap
parent spark of intelligence ant
seemed doomed to pass her whole life
without knowing the joys and sorrows
-sof living.
Her case was called to the attention
: Sof Professor Garre, who was inter
Aested from the very beginning, be
cause in it he saw possibility of be
ling able to prove the correctness of {
Sheory on which he had been at work
This involved the probable action o.
Influence that certain substances o
.secretions found in the ductles
GLANDS of the human body have upol
rthe blood.
1t is the blood, as everybody knows
>that feeds the brain, keeping it activ'
sand clear and in good working order
IF the blood is thin or sluggish th
brain is first to record that fact. Th
great German surgeon knew that tn