New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
SURGEONS CHEER PROF.
FOESTER At CONGRESS
Double Anasthesia Suggested
to 0bviate Fear in the
Mind of the Patient.
CLINICS ATTRACT VISITORS
Infantile Paralysis Figures in
Large Number of Operations
Sterilization Also
Demonstrated.

Demonstrated.
Professor Otfrid Foester, OF Breslau,
| Germany, who received three rousing
cheers when he was introduced to the
Clinical Congress OF Surgeons Of North
America by Its president. DR.. Edward
| Martin, at the Waldorf on Monday eve
ming was greeted with another round
of cheering when he arose to deliver his
| scientific address before the 900 surgeons
/ who crowded the grand ballroom last
night. After congratuating this country
on its work in surgery, DR.. Foester re-
| marked:
| when we come to see you, we come to
admire. I wish it will be so forever
America and Germany, hand In hand,
| always ahead"
| AS one of Germany's leading author
{ tiles on nerves, DR.. Foester took for the
subject OF his talk the Indications and
! Results Of Excelsior of the Posterior
| Spinal Nerve Roots in Man" He was
| followed by Or. Charles H. Frazier
Of Philadelphia. who talked on THE
| Problems and Procedures In the Surgery
OF the Spinal Canal; and Or. D'orsay
Hecht. OF Chicago. whose subject was
THE Surgery OF the Spinal Cord from the
| Neurological Standpoint" The last pa
| per was discussed by DR.. Alfred s. Tay-
| lor and DR.. Charles A. Elsberg, Of this
| city, and DR.. Albert Bauer, OF Breslau.
The first paper OF the evening was that
Of Dr. George w. Grille. who discussed AN
aesthesia and Anoci-Association." DR.. Grille
1 hot nf ha 40 u a
surgeon had to contend against was the
fear OF the operation In the mind OF the
patient. An efficient means OF counteract-
| ing this, he contended, was through what
| he called anoci-association, which, rough
| ~ signifies the blocking OF the nerves
leading TO the region to be operated upon
with a local anHsthetic, as we'll as plac-
ing the patient under general angsthesia.
Dr. George D. Stewart, OF Bellevue Med
zeal College, called upon to discuss this
paper. said that he would either have to
disagree with Or. Grille or agree with
him and apologize for not adopting his
method. Approaching the subject in light
er vein. he recalled that in a number Of
the Western hospitals the ether was adj
ministered by beautiful young women
alton that he could think Of
Speaks Of Gwathmey's Method.
More seriously. he spoke OF DR.. James
r. Gwathmeys method Of mixing the
orange, explained in The Tribune last
month. as based on the same principle.
The clinics held at the various hospitals
| in the city during the day continued 10 IN
terest the visiting surgeons yesterday
quite as much as the evening discussions.
Among the operations performed was one
which demonstrated With surprising WV
idness the lengths TO which fair woman
Will go to keep UP with the fashions. 1t
was performed by DR.. lie Roy Broun, with
the assistance OF DR. X. NJ. Rawle. at the
Woman's Hospital yesterday morning.
The operation appeared on the schedule
as "lipectomy for redundant abdominal
fat" Translated into plain English, this
means that an ellipical incsion was made
| on the feshy abdomen OF the patient and
wedge Of fat removed, after which the
edges of the wound were drawn togther
| II don't think the operation will become
exceedingly popular" remarked one OF
the surgeons last night, though 1t does
add to the symmetry OF the victim"
Another operation Of interest which
was done in the presence OF number Of
| the out-of-town doctors was the trans
plantation OF the Faloplan tubes to pro-
! iuce sterility, as II will be performed on
I female criminals in case the law for their
sterilization is passed in this state. DR.. L..
/ - ,.I I.I.
! Flower Hospital
| lnfantile paralysis figured in large
number OF operations yesterday, and
| demonstrations OF various methods OF
| treatment were conducted by Dr. Henry
| W. Frauenthal at the Hospital for De-
formities and Joint Diseases. More than
a hundred cases are In daily clinic there,
being treated by electricity, massage and
| muscle education. At ST. Mary's Hospi-
4 tai DR.. Charles n. Dowd performed an
operation to restore 10 A young patient
the use Of his foot, which often remains
out OF commission after partial recov-
cry from infantile paralysis
The operation consisted of detaching the
tendon of one muscle which has recovered
its function, and attaching 1t to the joint
StTNtu DJ inc uthNl'HN ~ ON''NA
words, the good muscle Is given more
important duty than that which nature
intended 1t TO fulfil.
Speaking of the treatment of infantlle
paralysis last night DR.. a. T. Bristow. OF
Brooklyn, observed that the anti-vivisec-
tionists were raising big howl over the
experiments made on living animals, and
vet the Rockefeller Institute had discov-
cred through its experiments OH monkeys
that infantile paralysis was a contagious
disease and how it could be transferred.
Think what an advantage We have
gained in our fight on this disease by
the discovery. which could not have been
made any other way" he said.
Other operations Of interest were the
patching up Of a fractured hip with an
ordinary wire nail, done by DR.. A. I.
Bristow. at the Kings County Hospital,
Brooklyn; the relieving OF pressure on the
spinal cord by removing the laminse OF
several of the vertebrs, done by DR..
George Woolsey, at Bellevue; attaching
| Lanes plates" for a compound fracture
NJ the tibia and hbula, performed by its
| originator, DR.. w. Arbuthnot Lane OF
Iondon. at the Polytechnic Hospital, ana
the removal OF "A part Of the skull to re-
,,eve pressure on the brain caused by a