The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-28
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THE HUMAN PROCESSION

Some eight years ago a young French surgeon, fresh from his na- tive land, arrived in Montreal He was digntfied and reserved, and in Lyon, France, he had achieved a local reputation as a daring and skiIIful operator and a man of original ideas, put he was young-impossibIy young. so Montreal didn't enthuse over the arrival of pr. Alexis Carrel who quietly engaged in laboratory work in McGll University. From the Cana dian metropolis the young Frenchman went to the University of Chicago. Inen, four years ago, he was engag- ed as an associate member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- search, and things began to happen.
 '"The wizard of surgery "the su- preme master of the lancet and scalp e1, is no venerable grayb card, for he will celebrate his fortieth. birthday to- day. He was born in Sainte Foy les Lyon, France, June 28, 1873, and was educated at the University of Lyon. For some time he was an interne in a Lyon hospital, and later 8 member of the medical faculty of his alma, mater. His surgical skill was manifested early in his career, but when he left Lyon for Montreal none of his associates dreamed that he would soon be fa,- nous throughout the world as the re- cipient of a, Nobel prize for the most notable discoveries in medicine and surgery. When the news of his stu pendous achievements reached France the physicians of that country were amazed and skeptical,, and one great French surgeon denounced him as an "inposter.'' Since then Dr. Carrel has 1ectured before the leading medt- cal organizations of his native land, and has convinced the doubt1ng Thomases that the honors showered upon him were not unearned. The French Academy of Medicine recently made the amende honorable for it's early doubts by inducing the French government to make Dr. Carrel a. Knight of the Legion of Honor.
 Professionally, dignif1ed and grave and serious, Dr. Carrel is a tcut-up" in more ways than one. His former associates in Lyon delight to tell how the young surgeon, after performing a most difficult operation before an assembIage of great surgeons, shocked and scandalized the savants, as they were leaving, by suddenly straddlfng the banisters and sliding. from the second to the ground floor. This un- digntfied exploit was accompanied by a shout of boyish enthusiasm. This act the young surgeon explained as process of blowing off steam after the mental and nervous strain 1rnpos- ed by the delicate operation.
 In a lecture before Parisian sur geons this month, pr. Carrel declared that the heart may be stopped, while performing an operation, for as long as ten minutes without danger to be subject, and that he is now able to op- crate in the chest cavity with as much ease and safety as in the abdomen.
 Raising melons for the market is the Summer occupation of William Louis Courtleigh, the famous Cana dian actor. He was born in Guelph, Ont, June 2s, 1869, and will ce1e- brate his forty-fourth birthday to-day on his melon farm at Sag Harbor, where he is a neighbor. of Farmer Bob Edeson and Farmer Billy Farnum. While g. native of Canada, Mr. Court1eigh was reared and edu- cated in St Louis, where he studied law. His first professional stage ap- pearance, a quarter of a century ago, was in a road company that produc- ed a rneIodrama he had written, en- titled Brother and Sister Since then he has become 8. star, and has been honored by his fellow players with election to the presidency of the Actors Society of America