The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-14
LIMB AMPUTATIONS
SAFE, SAY SURGEONS
Modern Methods Make Them
SO, international
Body Hears.
ART IN NATURES PLACE
Manufactured Members Almost
as Useful as the Old
Muscular Ones.
ART IN NATURES PLACE

met Yesterday at the Hotel Aston for
their fourth congress. They were well
coined in behalf OF President Wilson by
Surgeon General w. c. Gorgas. the man
who made Panama n health zone.
II have been asked by President Wilson
TO greet you at your first meeting in tina
United States" said surgeon-General
Gorgas. THE President regrets that he
himself il unable to welcome you. He
is detained in Washington by the press o.
public affairs"
Drs witzel OF Dusseldorf. Ceci Of Pisa,
Won KuZmik OF Budapest. Binnie OF Kan
sas City, Durand OF Lyons and Ranxl OF
Vienna at the afternoon session discussed
| amputations.
The speakers made 1t clear that ampu-
tation Of a limb Is relatively a safe op-
Grafton nowadays. The lost arm or leg
can be replaced with an artificial limb
which can be widely used by simple exer-
ton Of muscles in the hips or shoulders.
| For example, the artificial arm shown is
| controlled In all Its many uses simply by
| alert witches OF shoulder muscles.
Copies of an address by DR.. Alexis Car
! rel OF the Rockefeller Institute on THE
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF Organs" which will
| be read and discussed tomorrow. were
eagerly seized by the members Of the
congress.
some Always successfsl.
Dr. Carrel says that experiment has
pretty conclusively shown that trans
| plantations Of organs in the same crea
| ture are practically always successful;
transplantations of organs from similar
| creatures usually fail In the end. and sub
| situations OF organs in one creature by
of mi ralx e
! ferent sort are always a failure.
He was asked about the case OF a
Baltimore boy on whom an operation sub
shutting a cornea from a pigs eye seems
| to be succeeding.
'Ah. but that is different DR.. carrel
said. THE pigs eye cornea Is only a
tissue, not an organ. II that operation
succeeds 1t will not refute my conclu-
! sions"
He added that as far as the technique
Of transplanting organs - concerned IL
has been mastered completely enough for
use on human beings. The only thing
! that delays such gratis on human beings
is that II would involve nearly always TAX
| ing an organ from one person and putting
! IL in another person. process not We,
sufficiently safe. being OF the kind that
seems always to fail In the end.
DR. William J. Mayo OF Rochester.
| MINI, president OF the American Surgical
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session, telling the visiting surgeons that
| such surgery as this country has "sprane
| from the should' RS of European surgical
achievement Prof. Charles Willems
president of the association. was repre-
| scented BY a short address by Dr. j. T.
! Hoguet of New York.
Prof A. Depage, president OF the con-
! gress, delivered In French a strong plea
for the abolition OF war. This brought
much applause.
Tribute 20 Americans.
He paid n tribute to the work Of Amer.
lean surgeons in the civil war. AM
went on
The Balkan war has only emphasize
the lesson taught by the Manchuria-
war. The fate OF the wounded depends
more than all on the aid which is
given in the front of the battle. for as
long az the engagement lasts the ex'
posed ground Is inaccessible for the am
bulance men; thus hours pass In which
men remain without help.
THE following is without doubt the
solution: Each Of the combatants must
carry with him side by side with his
cartridges the objects necessary for a firs'
dressing. Experience of late wars has
proved also that before all the sanitar,
education Of the soldier must be i'm
proved"
He outlined IA system OF hospital work
TO handle the wounded quickly and eff
GENTLY. and concluded
AT meeting Of the Imperial Surgical
Society At Constantinople December. 1912
thunder of the cannons OF Tchataldja
every day. We expressed the fervent wish
that the use OF shrapnels might BE- ahol
ished on the same ground as explosive
bullets.
ITO military men this wish may ap
pear naive, but let me tell you that ar
not In any way ashamed Of H."
Arn,I~ss Men Entertain.
From their first session many Of thu
surgeons went TO the eighth floor OF tn,
Aston TO view the exhibit OF surgical ap
planes, which is feature OF the con
gress.
Through rows OF glttering knives anC
instruments for every conceivable opera
ton most of them were attracted to M
exhibition by two armless men. One IA,
lost both arms at the elbow; the other
the inventor OF the artificial arms the,
were displaying. has one good hand.
) SO marvellous did the fexibility ant
wide use OF the artificial arms and hand
they wore seem to visiting specialists OF
amputations that the two men were In
vited to exhibit before the congress wher
II met again in the afternoon,
on a raised platform before the sur
geons and visitors they fexed their arti
fetal arms. opened and shut the artificial
fingers, wrote with the made hand
legible letters. smoked without incoev, nj
ence, ran several kinds OF machinery
held and played rapidly hands of cards
2 and NJ last demonstrated the swift &C
ton Of the artificial fingers by tossin
4 satchel into the air and gripping
' by the handle before 1t could touch III
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