The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-20
WELL ILLUSTRATED IN coNVEN. TON AT CHICAGO ATTENDED
 BY DR. CoLLlNGs.
Something of the Wonderful Achieve. ments That Have Been Made by the Masters Who Have Studied the Subjects,

been attending the Eourth Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North Amer ica. About 5000 eminent physicians and surgeons from all parts Of the world met at this Congress to discuss important medical, problems, to hear speeches. and 10 watch operations It once difficult and abstruse
 Among other things. Dr. Ceilings reports an interesting operation for cancer of the tongue in 35 minutes. In this operation a portion of the jaw was cut away, the tongue cut and ,sewed, and the jaw replaced.
 The use of steel plates to nnlte fractured bones was demonstrated by the noted Englishman, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, who was the first 70 use plates. After exposing the frac- ttred femur, Sir William scraped the ends of the bone. He then made grooves in the bones with a circular saw, to a depth equal to the thick ment resembling d brace and bit made places for the screws which were in serted after the plates were put in place. and the wound dressed, After the wound has healed the patient should have as good a les as he had before the injury
 The 1914 sesslon of the Clinical
 Congress of Surgeons will be held in
 London during the week of July D..
 London's invitation came from fifty
 two of the leading hospitals of the English metropolis.
 The report of the cancer research
 committee is looked upon as one of
 the principal achievements of the Congress. It gives statistics showing thas some 75,000 deaths occur each year from this disease and shows that the average age in fatal Casis is about
 56 years. It is shown that cancer is
 distinctly d disease of advanced adult
 life. Of the mortality from all caas-
 es, ages 45 and more, the proportion
 of deaths from cancer is S.6 per cent,
 or, 64 ger cent for males and 112
 percent for females. The disease is
 a common malady and the death rate is increasing
 The assembled surgeons report ! great progress in the hunt for can cer cure, and that the disease can be
 eradiCa ated in it's early stages In the
 beginning it is d strictly local process and it is easily cured when removed
 early in its course, but the operation must he a complete one. The results of the operations performed now are a wonderful improvement on those of 20 or 90 years ago when nearly all died
 Interesting and instructive obs erva- | tions on the relation of the ductle5s glands to the work of the surgeon were made Ii was said that the internal secrstions of these glands exercise an apparently controlling in- tluence on many Of the organs and functions of the body; also on the nutrition and regula.iO of individual organs and their activity y-eyen to th3| extent Of becoming responsible for certain mental traits which may make or mar the individual Couspicious ! ldeiUrmity often results from per | verled activity of one or more Of the l dUctless glands. There is still much
 to learn concerning the functions Cf| the thyroid It seems to have an office resembling that of the spleen
 Experience seems 10 prove that the bulk of deganarative changes in the l heart are due to altt0intoxicatiOn. | The large is sometimes entirely re-
 moved with the greatest benefit to 1 the heart as well as the general
 we'll being of the patient Only about f percent of ,he short circuiting operations fo~ chronic stagnation of the bowel prove fatal lndisputable evidence was adduced that this chronic condition of the intestine is one of the most formidable causes of crime.
 Dr Ceilings believes strongly in the importance of these learned societies Thera can be no better authority than he on this biect for he attends practically all of them. He says that these medical congresses greatly enhance the advance of medi- cal and surgical science by the study eutailed, by the instruction Of emi- ment teachers, and by the interchange Of opinions among associates. and
 hat this is the only possible way 10 keep pace with the rapid strides 0f this great science. Should a physi- elan who lived 190 years ago" said h. suddenly come to life he would be staggered by the progress medi- | cine has been making and he could hardly practice in the world today.
 Dr. Ceilings has just lately return ed from Europe where he attended the 17h international Congress Of Medicine. While there. the city gov ernment of Carlsbad, Wiesbaden. Marienbad Baden Baden and other watering places paid his and other eminent physicians expenses in order Co have them inspect their several