New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-17
Amazing Experiments on
Dogs Shown at Rookie
Teller Institute.
SURGEONS PERFORM
VARIOUS OPERATIONS
New Method of Closing Incisions
and Other Specimens of
Skill Exhibited.

Operations demonstrating by their pre-
cision and technique that the lessons
American surgeons have received year
after year In the great European ainphi-
theatres have not been forgotten were
witnessed yesterday by the visiting sur
seons OF the international Surgical AS
ISOLATION. At several hospitals clinics
we're held by local surgeons, and In one
instance one of the foreign scientists In
troduced Q rev method of closing inci-
slons without the use Of sutures.
While this operation was going on many
OF the visitors attended a clinic AT the
Rockefeller Institute, where some Of the
results OF tho research work OF DR.. Alexis
Carrel were shown. lie exhibited to the
surgeons five dogs which had undergone
operations on the valves Of the heart
and which now appear normal and with
no signs of having been operated upon.
During their operations the circulation
NJ the heart had been stopped for two
and one-haf minutes. Or. Carrel said, yet
the patches in the valves had had no bad
effect. and when the operation was over
tho dogs recovered without difficulty.
Minor operations for tumor upon other
dogs were seen By thirty Of the members
OF the association, and after this bits
OF blood vessels In glass jars were passed
around, which were stated TO have been
so wonderfully preserved that they were
actually growing. IL was I'm the possibil-
ity Of eventually applying the knowledge
gained to humans suffering from valvular
heart troubles that DR.. Carrel explained,
lay the importance Of his demonstration
Several Of the surgeons went 10 the
Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled. in
East 42d St, 20 see DR.. J. Lorthihr, of
Brussels. bind wounds after operations
without the use Of silk or catgut sutures.
Despite the difficulty OF the particular
operations. the surgeon succeeded IN
drawing together the edges OF the ex-
terror ;ncsons and holding them with a
series of aluminium clamps.
The instrument used by the surgeon
was called q sewing machine, but IS In
reality an automatic feeding forceps,
which feeds and clasps the aluminium
clamps 8.
Aside from the novelty OF his method
OF binding wounds, the rapidly with
which the Brussels surgeon worked and
his dexterity of manipulation OF the In
struments excited much favorable COM
ment. -Four operations for hernia were
performed in rapid succession-two by
Dr. Lorthioir. one by DR.. J. p. Hoguet
OF New York, and one by Or. G. G. Bur-
dick. OF Bellevue Hospital Two Of the
cases were especially difficult, as the pa
tierts weighed more than 80 pounds
each.
The last two surgeons worked side by
side. one showing the Mayo method Of
suturinC and the other the Blake method
~ the Presbyterian Hospital Or. Ellis
worth Eliot. ir., performed several opera
lions and exhibited convalcscent stages OF
radical operations recently performed
One Of the latter was case Of bone
transportation, the hone substance haY-
Ing been taken from the tibia OF the leg
and placed above the eyebrow to remedy
a defect from a partial fracture OF the
skull. An operation on the larynx for
cancer and a major operation for carci-
noma OF the breast were also striking in
tho skill OF their performance.
Yesterday was the last day OF the con-
eress, and no formal meeting was held.
After the visits 10 the clinics fifty Of the
foreign surgeons started for a tour OF
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.