Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-09-27
WONDERS or sunGERY.
Eyes and Limbs rranspiantnd-Dead
Tissues Made to Grow.
(New Ybrk WorldD

uClo VI surgery.
Insanity, due to neuralgic pain,
cured by trephaning the skull and
taking out the "ifth" nerve.
Criminals restored to normal life
brain.
New" bones formed by trans
planting dead or living bones to liv-
ing bodies.
Whole joints removed and others
put in their places.
Kidneys transplanted from one an
imal to another.
Skin taken from dead bodies i'm
planted into living ones.
Skin removed from dead or living
bodies kept "alive" in the laboratory
by chemical means and made to grow.
Legs Of one dog made to grow on
the body of another dog.
Freckles taken from one person
and grated on another.
Broken backs mended, skulls re-
paired with bones from some other
part Of the body, new faces made,
dead nerves supplemented with
nerves Of animals; useless lungs, kid
neys, spieens and stomachs removed;
injure1 hearts, livers and other or
gans stitched; paralysis and dad
memory" cured by draining the spine
or brain; brittle arteries REINFORCED
with gold wire.
By means Of new kind of tele-
scope the interior of the throat and
lungs is examined.
New York surgeons nodded their
| heads in approval recently when they
| read dispatch from Paris in which
DR.. Borsch told the French Ophthal-
| mological Institute how he had cured
mans blindness by transplanting
| to the eye Of the patient the front
part of the eye Of dog, which had
| been sliced off for the purpose Just
| before the grating the front of the
mans eye was cut away. The mend
ed eye was kept in place by a glass
cover and into it was injected a
| serum.
! Eye-grafting Is only one Of a num-
| Der of wonderful things that have
| been done in New York by surgeons
In the last few years. AS far back
as September, 1908, Dr.. H. r. Lesser
| grated the corner from the eye of a
| rabbit upon the eye of a young man
who had been blind for fifteen years.
The result was a restoration of the
mans sight.
| In June, 1910, Dr.. r. S. Copeland,
dean Of the Flower Hospital staff,
| brought the gift of eye-sight to a wo-
man who had been blind since in
fancy by transplanting over her own
eye pupil portion of the cornea
| from the eye-ball Of a man. Prof.
Copeland in the same year grated
the cornea Of the left eye of Mamie
Ost upon the left eye-ball Of Sing
Long, a Chinese laundryman.
In Yonkers, in February this year,
surgeons took an eye out Of a girls
head to get at bullet The eye was
put back in the socket and the girl's
oiSHl "do leSuIleu as usual. In Ph1l-
adelphia recently Miss Esther Hea-
cock was cured of eye-twitching by
paralyzing the tri-facial nerve.
At the Rockefeller Institute in this
city, animal tissues have been grown
away from the bodies of the animals
whence the tissues came. Body cells
have been caused to grow faster By
transDlanting. Thus tho tissues of
hVe-year-old dog have been made to
grow quicker than those of a puppy.
Kidneys have been grated from one
cat to another.
The experiments now under way
with the aid Of the millions of money
supplied by the elder John ID. Rookie
feller indicate the possibility OF grow
ing young men from old, OF giving
fresh brains to the aged and Of Great
ing new forms Of animal life. Tissues
taken from living or dead animals are
Kept alive and made to grow. Thus
surgeon In the near future may al
ways have on hand well-selected
stock OF skin for grating purposes,
and the papers will not be called on
to chronicle tho ptiful stories Of
playmates, etc, who sacrifice their
own skin for the sake of their iniur-
ed comrades.
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