The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-24
GREAT SURGICAL
FEATS PERFORMED
Doctors In New York Saw
Oxygen Injected In Cav
ity to Aid Operation
GALL BLADDER
CAN BE CHANGED
Will Function if Attached to the Stom-
ach-Man Had Pouch That Caught
ment for Injuries.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 24-Several unique
surgical operations-one of them a de-
parture in the method of using the X-ray
were performed before delegates to the
ninth annual clinical congress of the
American College of Surgeons in New
York hospitals
Dr. William H. Stewart of New York
introduced a new and what is believed to
be invaluable method of using the X-ray
when he distended the abdominal cavity
of the patient by the injection of oxygen
before making the photograph. BY this
method the gall bladder, spleen, liver and
other organs were made to stand out in
bold silhouette, thus revealing the obscure
LESSONS when other methods failed to dis
cover them. The method is said to be
exceptionally useful in the diagnosis and
treatment of diseases of the gall bladder
and other abdominal troubles
The demonstration was made in the Len
OK Hill hospital.
In St Luke's hospital it was demon
strated by DIR. William A. Downs of New
York that while the gall bladder is nor
mally attached in the intestine, it will
function quite as well when attached di-
rectly to the stomach, whenever such a
transportation may be found advisable
1t was shown that bile in the new sur
roundings of the stomach does not inter
fere in any way with digestion.
Perhaps the most spectacular operation
was that of DIR. Raymond p. Sullivan of
New York in St. Vincent's hospital IT
saving from starvation a man 81 years old
upon whose oesophagus-the food channel
leading from the mouth to the stomach
had grown sac which received all the
food he ate and prevented its entering
the stomach. The man had been unable
to receive any food in his stomach by
other than artificial means for three
weeks, and was emaciated until death
was regarded as matter of a short while
The sac was removed, and surgeons said
the operation was successful and that III
a short while the patient will be able
to eat food in the good old fashioned
way and with relish.
Another interesting operation was the
restoration to normal position Of the con-
tents of his abdomen, which We're in the
chest. The patient was born with an
opening in his diaphragm, through which
his intestines and other abdominal organs
had become displaced. This operation al
so was performed by DR. Downs in St
| Luke's hospital
DR.. Russell A. Hibbs of New York il
| the New York Orthopedic hospital demon
| strated new method of prevention and
cure of lateral curvature of the spine.
Sir Robert Jones Of Liverpool, one o.
the worlds leading bone, joint and mus
Gle surgeons, told the SURGEONS in the Wal
| dorf-Astoria of the radical departures from
surgical operations whereby he was able
TO send hack into battle thousands Of
British soldiers and subsequently save tn
lives and limbs of other thousands o.
American soldiers in France.
In the early days of the war when TIN
| large number of wounded who came out o
i hospitals with stiff joints was reducing
heavily the man power of the allies ST
Robert Jones set himself to the task o
bringing disabled men through with limb
'as good as new" He abandoned the oil
method of placing an injured member Il
nhexible splints and instead insisted up
on regular exercise of the injured men
her from the time of the wound. BY tn
use of jointed splints the experiment wa
made success, and after an America
commission under Col. Joel f. Goldtf
, waith of Boston, who also spoke, had viz
tied Sir Robert and studied his method
American surgeons were enabled to carr
out this method of treatment.
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