The Detroit times., 1913-05-28
TELLS DISEASE
WITHOUT SIGHT
OF SUFFERERS
DIR. Hugh Cabot. of Boston,
Gives Remarkable DemOnstra-
ton of Medical knowledge
PROBLEMS WHICH
BAFFLED PHYSICIANS
Makes Diagnosis on Written Re-
ports of Other Men, In ID.
NJ. {. Clinic

Dr. Hugh Cabot. Of Boston. dared
To put his professional reputation IN
jeopardy. Tuesday morning. In tn
clinic OF the Detroit College OF Med
icines alumni association In st
Mary's hospital. DR.. Csbto. from q
typewriter sheet containing tho
facts obtained from the examination
OF apatieAt. made diagnosis OF tn,
disease. The results OF an operation
and post-mortem were then read. &c
show the correctness or incorrectness
OF DR.. Cabot's diagnosis.
Such procedure involves great
difficulties. The examining physi-
clan may have missed essential
points. or points which DR.. Cabo'
might consider essential. They hav
10 convey by word what the diagnos
tician should know by eve. ear an
touch Prejudced in favor OF can.
Ger. they may look for the symptom,
OF cancer and disregard - others
Moreover, the cases on which Dr.
Cabot passed were unusual cases
cases which had given great diff
AuiAy W tHt pilN III thbi &c
and in which some OF them haL
Numbered
Dr. Cabot's performance won thu
admiration OF the crowded audience
Without hesitation or reservation
he told what he would Judge the cas-.
10 be, disagreeing fatty. on many
points, with the examining physi
clans; and the post-mortem reports
read at the close OF discussion. show
ed Dr. Cabot to be correct in moro
than so per cent OF the cases, cases
II must be remembered. OF which
had no knowledge outside OF The
typewriter discussion OF the exam
ination.
In one case. Or. Cabot criticized the
physician in charge for the length of
the operation.
! would like 10 have mad the pulse
report on the day after the operation. '
he said The temperature OF 100
and the pulse Of 1870, three days after.
Indicate too much operation. The
amount which the patient could stand
should have been carefully estimated
Ii is likely that his system, too much
weakened by the operation, could not
withstand infection
la another case, after cautiOning
against too great reliance on the X-ray
rs guide Ia diagnosis, DR. Cbot found
nat the X-ray man had been cor
rect, and that he himself was wrong.
DR.. Cabot grinned and made a ges-
trre of resignation. while the audi.
ence laughed
Or. n. Wellington Yates was un-
able 10 give his clinic in gynecolosy.
having been operated on for appen-
dicitis, two days ago. DR.. Andrew p.
Blddle. in clinic on dermatology. dis
cussad the use of salversan (as "6O6
is now known, and neo-salversan, a
modification of the remedy.
The new salversan is said TO be
less Irritating than the old" said Dr.
B:ddle This Is not true however,
in all cases. have had a violent re-
action in a recent case IN which neo-
salversan was used
Neither will cure blood scourge
without mercury. The use OF mer-
curry must be persisted in The use
OF neo-salversan will aid materially
In the diminution OF infection in this
trouble
A case OF six years standing was
exhibitei-a woman whose nose had
been destroyed by blood scourge.
With the aid OF salversan and DR.
Murphy. new nose will be given
her. said DR. Biddlc.
Or. John b. Murphy. of Chicago. lee.
tured I'm the Detroit Museum OF Art,
Monday evening, on bone transplanta-
ton. He said that il had been found
impossible 70 transplant the bones or
animals into human beings, because
the human system aDsorps these
bones. Ii a hone IS transplaDted from
one person to another, the injured
bone Is revivifed in about 10 per cent
OF the cases. When bone is trans
planted from one part of Ahe same
person 10 another. the operation Is
usually successful; the fragment takes
life and grows.
Many stereopticon slides were
shown to demonstrate how wires,
screws and nails had been used IN
successful operations involving the
OF bony tissue
Tuesday afternoon clinics includ-
ed one by Or. William j Seymour In
surgery. one by DR.. l. l.. Polozker in
diseases OF children. and one bv Or.
George Chene in the use Of the X-ray