The sun., 1919-10-23
PEATS IN SURGERY
FOR VISITING M. DIS
Oxygen Injected in Cavity as
Aid in an X-Ray 0per-
alton.
STARVATION is BALKED
Sir Robert Jones Tells OF
Unique Treatment of
Stiff Joints.


one of them a departure in the metnoo
of using the X-ray--were performed Pc
fore delegates to the ninth annual ciin-
Icai congress of the American Coiieee OF
Surgeons In New York hospitals yesteF-
day. val,
DR.. william H. Stewart Of New YORK
introduced a new and what is beiieveu 10
be invaluable method of using the A-ray
when he distended the abdominal CAVITY
of the patient by the injection OF Owen
before making the photograph. by uis
method the gall bladder. spleen, nVer AM y.
other organs were made to stand out III
bold silhouette, thus revealing the op-
scure fesions when other methods faiieo
to discover them. The method Is said 70
be exceptionally useful In the diashosis
and treatment of diseases OF tne sai
bladder and other abdominal troubles.
The demonstration was made In the
Lenox Hill Hospital.
In st. Lukes Hospital 1t was demon
strated by DR.. William A. Downs OF new
York that while the gall bladder is nor,
mally attached in the intestine. IL mn, IA
function quite as we'll when attached
directly into the stomach. whenever such
a TRANSFORMATION may be found adVisa-
BILE. 1t was shown that bile In the new
surroundings OF the stomach does not
interfere in my way with digestion
Perhaps the most spectacular opera
tion of the day was that OF Dr. Naymono
p. sullivan f New York in st. Vincent
Hospital in saving from starvation
man 90 years old upon whose oesopna-
gus--the food channel leading from the
mouth TO the stomach--had grown a sae
which received all the food he ate and
prevented its entering his stomach Ine
man had been unable to receive any 1000
in his stomach by other than artinciai
means for three weeks. ana was eha-
ciated until death was regarded as a
matter of a short while. The sac was
removed ami surgeons said the operation
was successful and that In a short wniie
the patient will be able to eat food IN tne
good old fashioned way ana WIN reiisn
Operation in St. Luke's.
Another interesting operation was the
restoration to normal position OF tne
contents of his abdomen, which were IN
the chest. The patient was born WIFE
an opening in his diaphragm, through
which his Intestine and other abdomina
organs had become displaced. This op'
GRAFTON also was performed by DIT
Downs in ST Luke's Hospital
| DR.. Russell A. Hibbs OF New YORK II
the New York Orthopedic Hospital dem
onstrated q new method of prevention
ana cure VI i'eoA 49,
spine.
| Sir Robert Jones Of Liverpool. one o.
the worlds leading bone. joint and mus
cle surgeons, told the surgeons las
night in the Waldorf-Astoria OF the radi
cal departures from surgical operations
whereby he was able to send back Int
battle thousands of British soldiers ane
subsequently to save the lives and limb
of other thousands Of American soldier!
, in France.
| In the early days Of the war when thu
large number of wounded who came ou
of hospitals with sth joints was re
ducing heavily the man power of the Al
lies Sir Robert set himself to the tasl
of bringing disabled men through witt
| limbs "as good as new" He abandonet
the old method Of placing an injured
member in infexible splints and instead
insisted upon regular exercise of the in
| jured member from the time OF th'
wound BY the use OF jointed splint
the experiment was made success. ant
after an American commission under Gel
Joel e. Goldthwaith of Boston, who als'
spoke last night, had visited Sir Rober
and studied his methods American sur
geons were enabled to carry out thi
method Of treatment.
| Industrial Phase Discussed.
Methods of eliminating an annual los
of production of 81 900, 100000 through
| injury and i'll health Of employees of in
dustrial plants in America and the bet
| tering Of standards of health in industr!
were discussed by DR.. Otto p. Geier o
Cincinnati ard others.
Taking the properly trained physician
and surgeon out of his office, where nov
his services reach mainly only the ricl
and the poor, and placing him in groul
diagnostical clinics, where he will be a
the disposal of the laborer. and also b,
the special training of such physician
and surgeons through the establishment
of university departments and post
graduate courses and an endowed re
search institute were advocated by DI
Geier. DR.. Geier added that labor ha
visualized the need of such a programm
ahead of the medical and surgical pro
fession, with the result that workmen'
compensation laws and group insuranc
schemes are being promoted without con
sultation OF the profession which is o
should be expert in such matters.
To the failure of the profession I
keep abreast OF the times in those mat
ters he attributed largely the fact tina
in President Wilson's industrial confer
ence the medical or surgical profession
has no representatives.
DR.. Geier was OF tho opinion that tn
full cooperation of the profession coul
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