The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-24
,LINIC CLOSES
WITH SUCCESS
4ast Lecture in Series Is
Given by DR.. Max Bal
lin Tuesday.
ELLIS or TUMORS
Speaking Of Operations" Lee
surer Explains How Easy 1t
Is to Know a TumOr.

"Tprors and How to Know Them" or
VIVA Tumors I Have Known" might
,va been the subject Of the lecture
mr.. Max BALM which closed the
rilliant series given under the ausp!-
"a Of ST. GATHERINGS Memorial hospl-
Al this week. DR.. Balm in the closing
ecture given at the Elks club TAXED
bout tumors in the intimate and ram
iar wav Of a man who has been on
,peaking terms with them and his lueio
,resentation of the subject kept ms
.steners quite as enthralled as u ne
we're relating experiences in the jungle
DR.. Balm talked about tumors on
he gDirte. and in particular just how a
umor is to be located. Apparently
re N his way of speaking on the SUP
Act tumor is a simple thing TO re-
novo. particularly on the spine, once
ION know exactly where 1t ls HIS
.imnle and mastery way of describing
he way to locate a tumor made even
he difficult diagnostic end appear clear
Paralysis Clue.
The first tumor to be discovered on
SHINE and removed was accomplished
II the English surgeon Horsely in 1874
md since then great strides nave oeeh
made in the way spinal tumors nave
cen discovered and removed. -
SN8F s.g n. loov.ng turSEfS aces
7ot merely tap the area up ana down
he spinal cord to see if the patient
oilers. DR.. Balm pointed out. Some
ines the percussion test helps ana
o,notimes it doesn't. There are other
vovs Of locating tumors and these he
,rieAv listed under the heads OF L
oct pain, "a hyperaesthetlc zone
hove the lesion, 3-an anesthetlc area
Glow the lesion, 4-muscular paralysis
presence or absence of retlexes.
Perhaps the most encouraging aspect
the lecture to the medical student,
nd happily all practicing physicians
,or+hv Of the name remain medlca.
tudents to the end. was from DR.. Ball
rs point Of presentation, the degree
accuracy that tumor on the spinal
ira may be located, and from the point
the layman the apparent ease with
yhich one Of these little nuisances may
operated out.
"You lust shell them out with blunt
Instrument" said DR.. Balm. scoop
ashton"
Tells of Cases.
Dr Ballin illustrated the lecture with
intern slides and showed a number of
10 tvpical cases which had come under
il observation, some his own opera
,ons and others those of his associates
Detroit,
One of the cases operated upon for
amor was where man came to the
ospital paralyzed from the waist down,
another case young girl had motor
sion, couldn't touch certain keys on
he piano, another had intercaustal
ain and couldn't move his toes. All
oese patients were operated upon and
pinal tumors found. The man who
ouldn't move his toes was placed ON
he operating table and showed beau
iful picture of a real spinal tumor
he speaker said, when his spinal cord
vas exposed The man was a druggist
covered from the operation and never
,ad trouble afterwards. One woman
salient came to the hospital reporting
ains in the region of the gall bladder
". Ballins assistant operated for gall
stones. fortunately" he added hu.
norously, some gall stones were
found" The woman returned some
weeks later still full of pain. Her case
was diagnosed again, tumor located
On the spine. The operation for tumol
took place, the tumor found and re.
moved and presto, the gall bladder pain
was gone!
Or. W. C. Stewart, president of the
St. GATHERINGS hospital staff, thanked
the visiting teachers and his associate
physicians in Kcnosha for the success
Of the clinic, and Dr. Balm said ir
closing his lecture that he had seldom
observed such faithful attendance OF
the part of practicing physicians at any
clinic he visited.