Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-09-08
FEATS OF SURGERY
Experts Toretoll Wonderful
Things for the Future.
some Account Of Things Done, NJ the
Removal of whole OrgDps, Cutting
Through walls. ExpoHing
Hearts.
(From the New York Times)

! tFr0m the New OrR 1lneS.)
Scarcely month has passed in the last
| IL months without some important nm
nouncement Indicating progress In tho
domain Of surgery Some of the new oper-
| atoms have been spectacular and we'll
nigh unbelievable. especially IN tho field
| OF plastic surgery
| Whole organs havo been removed
from ono body and successfully trans
planted IN another body diseased and
! injured Joints have boon cut out and
replaced with joints taken from other
limbs, growing fast in their now en-
vironmcnt and performing tho functions
expected Of perfect tissues.
| Surgeons have cut through chest walls.
! exposed hearts wounded with knife or
bullet and repaired the damage. saving
the lives of their patients; while ono
| surgeon Mt least, the famous Carrel of
| the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search. has tied up the great blood ves-
sells surrounding the heart and then re-
vorsed the circulation AZ will.
These are only few of the many mir
| aclcs of modern surprons-cxamr|cs that
occur readily to tho mind OF the average
medical man as ne reviews the situation
! In this year 1910 But has the limit been
reached? That Is the natural query of
the curious The medical Investigator Is
ready with an answer. and the answer Is
n decided mo" what, then, arc We to
look for in another 10 years in the surgi-
cpl field?
One surgeon at least has underworld
In the last few months to learn the
adequate answer to that question. He is
| I,ur IF nf hC
delivered the Samuel Spencer memorial
GRAFTON OF the recent meeting of the sur
Eoons of the Southern Railway mt Rich
mond. His address sppears in the Inter
national Journal of Surgery. After pay
ing an eloquent tribute to the memory
of the late president of the Southern
| railway lpr. 1.Ofuu cUntuNed
Asking. therefore. the Indulgence Of
your further patience, ! wish To direct
your thoughts to the surgery Of 1910 and
| the possible ret results IN 1870"
| It developed in the course of the sur
geon's remarks on this subject that he
had addressed questions to n large num-
Der of prominent surgeons throughout
the country and had received many re-
plies from many of them. While pro-
| phesying a wider and rapid development
| In the realm of surgery the CONSENSUS of
opinion was to the effect that timely dag
nosls and simplicity was to be the key
| note Of success for the surgeon of the
| future.
| Il fully realize" said Or. Lotion. in
! Producing the subject to the assembled
| surgeons, at Is far cry a decade hence,
and yet to make predictions us to what
we may confidently expect in 1920 in the
| surgical world might not he without in
| terest to the surgeons of this association
| There Is no denying the fact that the
| surgery of 1910 is moro stable propo-
sition than 1t was during the 10 years
| Just passed; and yet we are looking for
more practical and simpler advances 1910
| gives us fewer fads in surgery than in a
great number of years. All surgeons are
working forward to the one end-sim-
plicity."
At this point Or. Lotion began to quote
from the replies received from prominent
surgeons to his queries regarding the
| future OF surgery.
There must be- wrote DR. Finney of
baltimore. should we properly advance.
| improvements In anaesthetics, simplicity
OF technic, and less use rather than "a
greater of surgical operations. a good
| many things We are now treating by
surgical Operations-cancer, for instance
will some day be attacked along the
| lines Of serum therapy."
A great portion OF surgery will be
made unnecessary by preventable medi-
cine said Or. Ochsner OF Chicago,
| chiefly In the line of sensible obstetrics
ana serum literary, and We will all
b. doing our consultation work in flying
| machines instead of automobiles
| i look for enormous Improvement
especially in the serum therapy field
says Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan OF Chi
| Cago.
Joseph Price of Philadelphia" CON
tinuod DR.. Lotion, also looks for start