The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21

entirely make over a man so far as his personal
appearance and moral character are concerned;
give him eye where has been lost
and even eliminate stomach, and improve
the and his appetite and digestion. recent case
10 attract attention that of William B Smith of
Brooklyn whose stomach was removed on September
9 TO prevent death from cancer and who 20 days
later ready for work declaring that he felt bet
than any time in the last five years After the
operation he gained weight at the average of half
pound day
Surgery is fast developing potent factor in the
study and cure of crime, and what regarded not
long ago fantastic conception of the novelist is
authenticated fact
Restoration OF a blind patients eyesight by a
surgical operation which involved the grating OF the
eye of rabbit the optic of the under
treatment is the remarkable surgical feat performed
by DR.. Henry R. Lesser Of New York Losing the
sight of his right eye at years of age, through
attack OF measles, the patient abandoned all hope
OF cure. The eye was irrigated, cocaineized and
disk from the cornea and in its place affixed
a disk from the eye OF months old rabbit
After three months the vision so improved that
the patient could fingers and get about unaided
He has learned colors again, and at the age of Is
is restored usefulness which disease impaired for
nearly two decades
Let those who have watched the Hindu masters
OF magic cut human body in half and then reunite
cases lifted from the days work of score of eminent
surgeons, cases of that have the added value
Of sctuality
-Four year old Mary Lascomb of Upland, Pa.
called by who attended her "the bravest girl
in the world" left hospital the other day COM
pleely cured of double congenita disocaton of the
hip On November "a, 1907, when she was operated
on she seemed hopelessy deformed. Today she is
of perfectly normal physique
Arthur Meyer, badly disfgured by the entire alb
sence of nose and often seriously hampered in OBJ
tanning work because of his 1nsightness, was dis
charged from Philadelphia hospital few weeks ago
with made from his flesh as good as the
he had originally. In addition there not
trace nor scar TO suggest surgical operation that
brought il about.
Martha Fordney of Atlanta, Ga, today has
tirey new lower jawbone filling the cavity that
listed for months from Just below to the center
Of the chin The surgeons knife and the ability of the
human body when assisted replace its parts gave
it to her.
NJ Constant lie B. Cromler of Paris sat be-
fore me and fingered mis- slken, curling eyelashes
which his money and willingness TO stand pain had
obtained for him from noted French surgeon in the
Boulevard Haussmann. Each hair had been inserted
singy into the lid with a needle and had taken root
He was anaesthetzed locally during the operation.
Afterward the hairs had been curled with tiny iron
hardly larger than knitting needle. NJ. Cromier,
from of most unusual and uncanny appearance,
has become than passing fair and at least
normal.
Surely these widely different cases, each OF
which is indicative of the scope of the surgery
which today permits the virtual remaking of
The old rhnoplastic surgery, which has thousands
of riumphs its credit being supplanted by what
merely be termed "the new surgery" for want
OF name which the profession is agreed. If one
seeks TO anayze it closely to determine its elements
he will be obliged realize that it is largely the out
growth OF a better knowledge the part of opera
of the human bodys reproductive possibilities,
daring the part of the surgeon and to the
successful outcome of animal and human expert
ments
No matter how nervous the word experiment"
makes one feel when mentioned in connection with
surgical operations performed to outwt death, emf
nent surgeons have seldom been other than frank
though possibly not to the patients themselves-in
admitting that their efforts often experimental
1t is fortunate in considering series of recent
operations that have under my observation that
the majority of patients have been poor, often with
no money resources and quite often removed from
charity wards TO operating rooms This will assist
in showing how much is now available TO our very
poorest classes at no whatever; that the very
greatest surgical skill is usually theirs for the asking
and that the only difference between themselves and
wealthy patients for the time at least is the
difference in environment between the hospital