The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
Is Discovered by Physician
After Is Years. Study.
Useless Organ Found to Be Inn
pOrtant Before Birth.
USE DEAD CHILD'S BONES
CIubfOOt Boy Sent Home Cured
After Operation.
Bones of Children Are Trans
planted to His Feet.

New York Aug. 14.-Dr. Israel
Feinberg, president of the board of
coroners, mas arrived at a conclusion
with regard to the history OF the
vermiform appendix in the human be-
ing and the question of its use or lack
of the same to the body. DR.. Feinberg
has spent 8 years in the study of the
appendix, both from the point of view
of the cure of appendicitis and the or
CAMS place in the human structure.
The conclusions which he has reacheo
are now in medical annals
Briefly, DR.. Feinberg believes that
the appendix is of vital Importance in
the unborn child. After the birth or
the child, DR.. Feinberg declares, the
utility of the appendix vanishes, and
the organ gradually atrophies. until in
mature life it Stimulates rudimentary
mass of tissues
The Appendix Is Enlarged.
81 have discovered that the appen-
dix is found in an enlarged state in
the child before BIRTH" DR.. Feinberg
Exclaimed today. "As is commonly
known, the child at that period pos
sesSes a number of organs that diner
almost entirely from those which are
found after birth, when he oegfns 10
stance, the heart, the lungs and the
intestinal tract. In my opinion the
appendix has some particular actlon
in relation to the intestinal canal until
the time of birth,
ssFTroy,, various opportunities for OBJ
servation and experiment, 1 have dls-
covered that this appendix has valve
like action upon the tntestines Whlcn
prevents the entrance into the pooy q
the child of foreign substances. AFTER
the birth of the child, the appendix
gradually begins to grow smaller I'M
til. at last, il contracts so that only
small opening is left. in place OF the
wide mouth which formerly opehSo
into the intestinal tract"
Dead Bones in Boys Foot.
BY a feat of modern surgery a 2
vear-oId boy admitted to the Post
Graduate Hospital five weeks ago with
deformities which in the light of medi-
cal science of a few years or even
hopeless cripple for life has returned 10
Waterbury, Conn.,, sound and normal In
limb and functions.
Bone transportation, the newest line
of experimentation in Twentieth Cen
fury surgery, reclaimed the young Grip
pie Bones taken from the bodies OF
healthy infants, who had suffered vio-
lent deaths, anG placed in cold storage,
We're transplanted into the body of the
boy by a new operation which now can
be pronounced successful.
The little patient was born with de-
formed feet, commonly called club feet,
due to the fact that there was not the
normal number of bones in the feet.
DR.. Fred H. Albee, whose recent orig
inal work in bone transportation
had attracted wide attention in the
medical world, construed and perform
ed new corrective operation for a de-
formity that for thousands of years has
filed the world with cripples.
Lay in Cold Storage.
Four weeks ago the bodies of two in
fants who had died of strangulation at
birth were available at Bellevue Hos
pital. They were normal and healthy
bodies. From one was taken a thigh
bone and from the other an arm bone.
First an incision was made in one of
the deformed feet and the ligaments
cut so II would assume normal position.
Then the missing part of tie skeleton
made up of the human bone for that
foot was put in place 30 it formed n
juncture between the heel and toe
Zones. The surgical wound was then
closed with sutures and the foot placed
1E plaster cast to give the transplant
ed bone rest until nature should adopt
Il as part of the skeleton of the foot