Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
NO INJURY WILL
DEFY THE KNIFE,
SAYS PHYSICIAN
Wounds in the Vital Organs
Cause Only inconvenience
Now, Declares DR.. WereIius.
CANCER, TOO, CAN BE CURED
BY SURGERY, SAY DOCTORS
tuberculosis, Food Sanitation
and Medical Discoveries Re-
ported at Convention.


Especial TO the Evening starI
ATLANTIC CITY, June 24.-There
is no wound to the heart, however
violent. that will not yield to present.
Gay surgery, declared DIR. Axel Wer-
elius of Chicago. in his address to-
DAY before the session of the
American Medical Association. Dr.
Werelius spoke on Experimental
Surgery of the Heart and Lungs,
and related some of his surgical eX-
periments in a Chicago Hospital to
prove that injuries both to the lungs
and to the heart are not necessarily
fatal now
Among the cases he quoted are not
only wounds, but also ailments of
these organs that are now hopeless
with ordinary treatment. The practi-
cability of surgical interference with
the heart and lungs, he declared has
been demonstrated in many instances
on animals, and in most cases the
animals showed great recuperative
powers Immediately after the opera
tion.
"Abnormalities of the heart he
said. such as a narrow opening be-
tween two chambers, can be corrected
surgically
Such conditions as are found in a
so-called blue baby and which are
now absolutely hopeless, will in the
future be remedied by surgical means
"Of practical application to human
patients is the observation that in
grave injuries to the heart the heart
sac should be widely opened, as the
heart needs absolute and perfect free
dom of action. Every part of the
chest can be reached with compare
tive ease and safety.
Can Take Out the Heart.
This work further demonstrates
that removal of the entire heart sac
causes practically no disturbance.
New heart sacs were manufactured
from tissue covering the intestines.
Stab wounds, even multiple, entirely
through the heart caused only tenn
porary tumultuous heart action. Knife
punctures required suture and healed
rapidly. The heart chambers were
cut into and sutured. Their interior
was explored by the finger and even
inspected by the eye. The windpipe
in the chest has been cut off and re-
united This was far more dangerous
and difficult than the heart work.
This, as well as some of the other
work, has never before been attempt
ed. Slight disturbances followed the
heart work Some of the animals
Jumped up and down the table half
an hour after the operation, showing
the marvellous recuperative power of
the heart"
Treatment of Cancer.
1.-The appalling list of mortalities due
to cancer would be considerably les
hn IN in
time" asserted DR.. Joseph Colt
Bloodgood. of Baltimore, in his ad
dress on 1.-The Relation of the Surgeon
to the Conquest of Cancer" Igno-
rance, fear of operation, which leads
to delay. and bad treatment. he de-
clared, are the chief enemies of re-
covery from the malady.
THE duration of the disease and
its treatment are comfortable fac
tors" said DIR. Bloodgood. Small
groups of the profession and the
people have been educated, why not
all the profession and millions of
people? The information necessary
can only be furnished by the surgeon.
The information can be given TO the
profession and to the public through
the lay press and medical journals.
External cancer is purely surgi-
cal disease. In all LESSONS of the skin
and Jumps beneath the skin and
symptoms referred to bones and
joints, a surgeon should be given the
responsibility of the examination,
diagnosis and treatment.
when the warnings point to the
abdomen, competent physician
should make the examination, and in
many cases ask the aid of a surgical
colleague. Delay is due to the fact
that the people and the profession
know that many havt such warnings
and do not die from cancer.
Dangers of Delay.
THE appalling mortality of cancer
is due to the fact that the few among
the many who have such warnings
seek advice late and come for surgical
help still later. Cancer will never be
conquered until the early innocent
warnings are needed and thorough
examinations are Immediately made
by competent physicians and sur
geons. The Roentgen ray should
be employed more frequently The
earlier proper treatment of things
that are or may be cancer offers the
only possible hope of large per cent.
of permanent cures, even up to 100
per cent. The people and the pro-
fession should also be informed that
incomplete operations in the early
and more favorable stage of cancer
are dangerous and do not offer as
good chance of a cure as later COM
plete operations. Surgeons must
educate themselves to meet this new
responsibility. The conquest of can
Ger rests on widespread education on
the beginnings of local troubles which
are or may be cancer, and the edu-
cation of the physician and surgeon
on the more difficult diagnosis in this
earlier stage. and the education of the
surgeon on the best operative treat
ment."
Lard as Fo,d for Infants
Speaking on Experiments with
Swine Fat in Infant Feeding" Dr.
John Sahorsky, of st. Louis, recon-
mended the use of what is known
commercially as lard as a food for
children. 1t contains no volatile
acids, he declared, and should. there
fore, cause less digestive troubles.
DIR. Sahorsky said
THE young infant needs fat In
large quantities and many infants
cannot digest butter fat, May not
lard be substituted for butter fat in
milk mixtures? Ten infants were fed
on skinned milk diluted. to which
lard was added, for varying periods.
The results were very good and
proved that in many infants lard may
be used in place of.butter fat to sup
ply additional nutriment."
1.-THE Importance of Proper Sani-
tary Measures in the Preparation of
Foodstuffs," topic which is of vital
interest to all. from the habitue of
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