Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-25
NEW MACHINE TO
. STRA|GHTEN BONES
Or. F. n. Albec Reports Sue
cessfulIy Treating Hunch-
back and Clubfoot.
MOTOR-DRIVEN DEVICE
SHAPES LIVING TISSUE.
East Orange Surgeon Reads
Paper Before American
Medical Congress.
Especial to the Evening stArI

ATLANTIC CITY, June 25.--The re-
markable advance of surgery. especi-
ally in regard to one-setting, was
read to the congress of the American
Medical Association here today by
DR.. Fred H. Albee, of New York
Through a newly devised, electri-
cally-driven apparatus, which shapes
living bone, it is now possible to
straighten hunchbacks, correct club
feet, make inserts to bone structure
and to correct fractures, he said.
/ DR.. Albee spoke on the Original
Use of the Bone Graft, Fractures and
Other Conditions" Some of these OPP
erations, he said, are live bone, nails
of various diameters, bone graft
splints of various sizes and shapes
and bone graft wedges.
by means of this new electrical
outfit" DR.. Albee declared, 1.-The sur
geon has at his disposal a modern
carpentry equipment upon his instru-
ment table. Bone operations which
were considered impossible are now
accomplished with speed and accu-
racy. Two hundred and sixty-five
bone grating cases are reported, 1876
of which are tuberculosis of the spine
or hunchback, fourteen cases OF club
feet and eighteen cases of paralytic
deformities of the feet where bone
graft wedges were used to remedy the
skeleton of the foot; twenty-four
cases of fractures which could not be
made to unite by other means. some
of which had been ununited for four
years and had been operated on by
other methods as many as seven
times.
Every case, or 100 per cent, has
been united by the authors inlay
graft method. Other uses of the bone
graft reported for the following con-
ditions are: tuberculosis of ankle
and knee, congenital absence of bones
of the feet, deformity of hip, parayl-
sis of wrist, deformity of tibia, frac-
ture of hip, fracture of spine and
spina bifida of the spine. In eight OF
!, the cases the bone used was taken
from another person. 1t is, however,
desirable whenever possible to use
bone from the same individual"
blaming the Doctor
"Thromboses ind embolism, which
set in after an operation, are really
unavoidable" declared DR.. Angus
Mclean of Detroit, speaking on
"Thromboses and Emboli; Their Sig
nificances and consequences in Alb
dominal Surgery"
These conditions" Dr. Mclean
said. "are accidents and happen at
the time when they are least expect
ed. The surgeon is usually blamed
for this condition, especially If death
occurs. 1t is impossible to explain
this condition to relatives or friends;
they always feel that the surgeon is
to blame"
DR.. Mclean related from his ex-
perience what operations are more
frequently followed by thrombosis or
.smboli He also dealt with some re-
sults he obtained in animal expert
mentation in induced thromboses. he
hold of the different methods used to
bring ON a thrombosis in vein After
& speaking of the emboli that cause
Il death he spoke of those which did
not cause death; how, depending on
the organ in which the embolus
lodged, it caused grave or mild symp-
toms ranging from small abscess to
even the loss of an ar or a leg. He
finally showed how in these cases
medical or surgical treatment Is prac-
tically of no avail.
The Responsibility of Hospitals.
= DR.. Herbert o. Collins discussed the
RESPONSIBILITIES of the staffs in the
hospitals and administration of hos
pitfalls, the methods of sterilization,
preparations of patients for opera
tions selection of nurses, etc.
THE surgical service covers all
work done in the hospitals, and should
not be confined to the operating
room,' he declared.
Other topics he discussed were:
The operating rooms; are they over
equipped and overorganized? Is
money being spent on the operating
rooms which could be more advan-
tageously invested in other parts of
the hospital? Woulud we have bet
ter surgery if simpler methods were
introduced and less money spent on
marble and tile, the chief value of
(which is for show? The surgical
clinic; is it a good or bad thing for
a general. public hospital? Are pa
tients often injured by being used for
surgical clinics, and is the hospital
benefited or injured by allowing them
in the wards? Who should control
the clinics, the staff or the admins
tration?
Old and New Hospitals.
In his address on Comparisons of
Old and New Hospitals" DR.. r. ].