Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
WONDERS OF SURGERY.
Eyes and Limbs TranspIanted-Dead
Tissues Made to Grow.

Here are some of the recent won.
ders of surgery:
Insanity due to neuralgia pain cured
by trephining the skull and taking out
the fifth" nerve.
Criminals restored to normal life by
relieving a certain pressure on the
brain.
New" bones formed by transplant
ing dead or living bones to living bod
les.
Whole joints removed and others put
In their places.
Kidneys transplanted from one ami
NAL 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 repair
ed with bones from some other part of
the body, new faces made, dead nerves
supplemented with nerves Of animals;
useless lungs, kidneys, spleens and
stomachs removed; injured hearts, liv-
ers and other organs stitched; paraly-
sis and bad memory" cured by drain
ing the spine or brain; brittle arteries
re- enforced with gold wire.
BY means of new kind Of telescope
the interior of the throat and lungs is
examined.
New York surgeons nodded their
heads in approval yesterday when they
read a dispatch from Paris in which
DR.. Borsch told the French Ophthal-
mological institute how he had cured a
mans blindness by transplanting to
the eye of the patient the front part
of the eye of a dog, which had been
sliced off for the purpose. Just be-
fore the grating the front Of the mans
eye was cut away. The mended eye
was kept in place by glass cover and
into it was injected a serum.
Eye grating 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 at Sep
tember 1908, DR.. Henry r. Lesser
grated the corner from the eye of a
rabbit upon the eye Of young man
%
The result was a restoration Of the
mans sight.
In June, 1910, DR.. Royal S. Copeland
Dean of the Flower hospital staff,
brought the gift of eyesight to wo-
man who had been blind since infan-
cy by transplanting over her own eye
pupil a portion of the cornea from the
eyeball of a man. Prof. Copeland In
the same year grated the cornea of
the left eye of Mamie Ost upon the
left eyeball of Sing Long, a Chinese
laundryman.
In Yonkers, in February this year,
surgeons took an eye out of a girfs
head to get at a bullet. The eye was
put back in the socket and the girls
sight was resumed as usual. In Phil
adelphia recently Miss Esther Heacock
was cured of eyetwitching by paralyz-
ing 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
transplanting. Thus the tissues of
fve-year-old dog have been made to
grow quicker than those of a puppy
Kidneys have been grated from one
cat to another. The legs of one dog
have been put on another.
The experiments now under way
with the aid of the millions of money
supplied by the elder John d. 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 a well-selected
stock of skin for grating purposes
and the papers will not be called on to
chronicle the pitiful stories of play
mates, ETC., who sacrifice their own
skin for the sake of their injured COM
| rades.-New York World.