Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-03-21

the SIZE OF nOrln IL cut OUT anu Iuen
the surgeon unhesitatingly pierces to
the depths Of the brain and removes a
tumor. After few weeks the pa
tent leaves the hospitsl in good
health, with perfectly normal vision
and no tendency to staggering
Some TO ms of epilepsy are cured
by removing portion Of the brain,
and in severe intractsble cases Of
neuralgia it ia the practice OF few
great brain surgeons to remove a
large nerve ganglion from within the
skull.
A broken neck That was FORM
erly the type OF all that was fatal in
accidents. Yet today in London may
be seen a fine. looking, stalwart, sol.
dierly man, who not very long ago
broke the vertebra of his neck.
The young man In question broke
his neck at gymnasium. Instantly
he became paralyzed in all his mem
bers from the level of the neck down
ward He was taken to the hospital
in dying condition The surgeon
sooD discovered that piece of one of
the yertebra of the neck was pressing
on the spinal cord. BE removed
that. Then he kept the neck for
some time In p aster case, till the
fractured bones grew together again,
and, as indicating that be had COM
plete confidence IN the success OF his
operation, he made his patient, on
the latter recovery, the driver OF
his motor car
Again, bullets through the brain no
longer necessarily cause death. Gases
of the sort occurred during the South
African war, when soldiers who had
been shot through the head were
operated on in field hospitals, and SUBJ
sequently sent home, apparently none
the worse for their terrifying expert.
ence
Que doctor in London believes that
he Can cure madness by operating on
the brain. He has not been specially
successful in finding the tumors which
he generally looks for as the seat OF
the mischief, but the patients In a
plumber of cases recover from their
delusions. This may be due to the
operations relieving the brain OF the
pressure within a skull which no long
er gives it sufficient room.
The stomach has often been remov-
ed altogether from the body The
patient subsequently requires to be
fed at shorter intervals and with light
diet, but appears to suffer no other IN
convenience.
Modern surgical instruments, more
over, give us much more reliable In
formation as to the state OF the inter-
nal organs than was formerly posi-
BILE. We can explore the kidneys and
watch them at work ; we Can reach
the interior OF the heart and examine
the cavity OF the stomach Even dis
eases of the lungs have been treated
by the surgeons knife.
There is disease called pneumoth'
orax, IN which a perforation allows
the outside air to enter the chest
through the back, and 30 produces
collapse OF the lungs. This condition
ls not fatal 80 long as the other lung
is intact, and i was observed that
pneumothora1 arrested the progress OF
consumption. Surgeons nowadays al
ti6clslly produce pneumothorsx for
this purpose, and at the same time re-
move a portion Of the diseased lung.
The p.ncreas is somewhat mys-
FERROUS organ. 1t corresponds TO the
"sseetbread" in cattle. Whatever
be Its functions, it ia found that IN
diabetes 1t undergoes changes which
show some connection OF cause and ell
feet. Therefore, the operation has
been recently undertaken of curins
diabetes by manipulating sweet
bread" from calf into the body OF
the sufferer.
Some severe forms Of dyspepsia are
now cured by what may be called
short-circuiting the stomach and the
intestines in such a way that the
faulty portion Of the system is thrown
out of gear.-LOndOn Dispatch.
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