Arizona republican., 1921-05-02
REMARKABLE FEAT
 ACCOMPL PLISHED BY ' EASTERN SURGEON

UUnOEUIu For the first time in inc bistou of medical science bnl,e+ baa ilistory h removed from a human beinp,s bod,, Niln the Use of a lancet. This re, .lt'li Nthie feat was accomplisbaa + ~t..ttsen Hospital Philadelphia re- "e 1. a professor of the Jeffer- son Medical college. pr C,heva1iey -''Sckson- Details of the oneratio,, were related as follows in the Phil See.ihla Public Ledger of April 15:
 ne pSuent, Stanley Suit. seven
 @r-oie collier boy of D West street. NanJicoiSe. near Wilkes NJ, was taken to the hospital last ,,.ao.'S- According to physicians as ven as surgeons connected with inc
 ANnton, he was beyond the help live. was nut expected to
 NSterdaN Stanley left the hospital healthy. cheerful lad He jumped car for Bread street station and eseN N a train home His temperature o not been a single degree above ci1iaat and he had been in pain for much as a minute
 Stanley had been shot accidentally .a the lung The bullet penetrated ms ecdS through the back and lodged stance.
 ny ssclans and surgeons in the pa tttnt s home town in Wilkes Barre Mno diagnosed the case concluded tta@a an operation would be fatal ne physicians were about to give stanley up for lost, knowing. that if a-e bullet were allowed to remain in me lung an abscess would develop
 
 boys death.
 Then one of the medical men sug- Eested that the lad be removed to fhliadelphia and taken to Jefferson hospital That physician knew of the tronchoScope and the marvellous things that had been done with it in the Philadelphia institution.
 The bronchoscope was applied to Stanley. With its aid the bullet was eiisninated through the boys throat and mouth.
 The bronchoscope is not new. The scientist who developed it-and he Was the one who treated Stanley has used it with success in hundreds 01 cases of children and also adults Who were suffering from foreign sub stances that had lodged in the lungs the bronchial tubes or the stomach But m all of those cases the sub stances had reached the organs eith- CT through breathing or swallowing This is the first time that the bron- choScope was applied successfully in case where the substance had been forced into the body from the out side.
 What is bronchoscope? The name implies that it is an instrument Nhercwith to see the bronchus The appliance looks simple enough. IT Is merely a thin silver pipe, vary ing in length from F to Is inches and in diameter from 1-10 to Is of m inch It is connected with a small electric battery. by means of which a light is produced in the end of the tube. where also magnifying glasses of varying strength can be inserted. Its principle is that of a periscope, but inverted. Instead of being used 50 one may look upward from below it enables one to look downward from above But the bronchoscope is not merely the opposite of the periscope n a physical sense. The periscope ..Wss an instrument used in the de- 'Strnction of human life With the aid Of the bronchoscope human life is saved
 Through the opening of the bronch- oScope. forceps and other holding in struments may be inserted for the purpose of removing substances from the organs affected
 The Jefferson college professor who developed the bronchscope has in vented one most remarkable appli- arce. It is an instrument which is used to close safety pins inside the hung or the stomach before remov- ing them through the throat.
 With the aid of this small appli- ance. the specialist in question has eliminated safety pins from the lungs snd stcmachs of 30 patients.
 The bronchoscope since the time i was perfected and put to use in Jef- TerSon hospital has been Instruments in r;siding close to 1000 patients from foreign substances in vital organs The substances included peanuts which are often breathed in by ehil dren. pins. coins, fruit stones and al most every other object that possibly can be swallowed or inhaled by { fahy or a grown person.
 In the case of Stanley, X-ray pic lures were taken of the lung. Tn l,ronchoscope was inserted througl the larynx and through the windpip into the right lung. A local anesthet sc was applied to the patient.
 The body was never in pain no had trouble of any sort said one o Inc surgeons in Jefferson hospita veStcrdav. He did not even coug or expectorate. His temperature wa normal throughout. I think I ar safe in saving that this was a uniqi- accomplishment and triumph fo medical science"
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