The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-19
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New Jaws and Noses and Even Entire
Faces Made to Order. Eye of Pig
Transplanted in Child, and Bones
Are Supplied Where Needed.
Everett Spring in Saturday Globe.)
Surgery in all countries is as old
as human needs. A certain skill in
the staunching of blood, the extrac-
ton of arrows the binding of wounds,
the supporting of broken limbs by
splints and the like has long been
known and utilized as means of
saving life, but now modern wizards
of the scalpel are actually performing
marvels in mending the human anat-
omy with saws, screwdrivers, ham,
mers and nails.
DR.. Lane was the pioneer in this
new bone surgery. The greatest sur
geon in the land, DR.. John B. Murphy,
took up the work started by DR.. Lane,
and has performed wonders. An ac-
count of some of his operations re-
Gently appeared in the New York
Times. 1t was there stated that for
many years the medical profession
has been troubled with obstinate
fractures. That is, a patient comes
with a broken bone which stubbornly
refuses to unite Months drag into
years, and, with no bone union, the
patient is helpless. Just recently DR..
Murphy began cutting down to those
fractures, scraping the ends of the
bone with a carpenter chisel, nail
ing the broken ends together with his
lead hammer and his wire nails and
sewing up the wound. With these old
ends freshened the bones unite quick
ly, and the patients are soon walking.
For many years surgeons labOred
futilely against the inrOads of dis
eases which destroyed bones, necessi-
tating their removal and leaving the
patient incapacitated. Tubercular in
fections, giant CELL sarcoma and 9TH
er maladies were the bane of those
who suffered them, since their far
advance usually meant an invalid's
chair or bed, may be an amputation
But bone grating now has done away
with the terror of these ailments.
Making New Nose.
In 1899 DR.. Murphy grated a sec
ton of cartilage on the nose of wO-
man. Two years later patient came
to him without any nose. Dr.. Muir
ply fastened the mans finger to his
forehead, grated it there and let it
remain for two weeks until it had
grown fast Then he removed the
bone from the finger. leaving the flesh
growing to the face of the patient,
who then had been supplied with
nose This was the first of many
similar operations which have been
performed.
In 1900 DR.. Murphy began serious
ly to specialize in bone surgery.
woman unable to cross her feet came
to him. She had fallen off a street
car a year before. An X-ray photo
graph showed a fracture at the neck
of the femur. An operation was per-
formed, the ends of the broken bone
were chiseled off, ''freshened" the
surgeons call it, and two large nails
were driven into them to hold them
tightly together. Two weeks later
the patient had entirely recovered the
use of her limbs.
But that was just the beginning.
From mending bones with a tack
hammer it was but a step for the
wizards of the scalpel to supply bones
where they were needed, Transplant
ing was the next step. Often the
necessar ybone was cut from another
part of the patients body to be in
serted in the spot where it was need
ed to replace a section which had
been removed. When this was not
practicable it was taken from the
bodies of the freshly dead.
A few months ago research in the
new carpentry had so far progressed
that the following operation was per-
formed by the versatile Dr.. Murphy:
A woman came to him with one of