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ifft MOUm AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1912 XO. 12 BOLD EXPLOITATION OF MODERN SURGERY. Miraculous PerformaJices of Sur geons Which Seems Almost Be yond Belief. New York vSun. Two instances among the many seemingly miraculous perform ances of modern, surgeons have recently seemed noteworthy enough to justify their finding a place in the telegraphic news of the day and being published far and wide in the newspapers. One-wa.s the case, of a patient ire the Pennsylvania Hospital in I'hiladelphia' who had suffered a .serioas laceration of the heart' The treatment, to He of any value whatever, had to be al most instantaneous, ai d f rtu nately for him his case was taken in, hand without delay. H- w s put under the influence of an! anaesthetic and three if h:s ribs were sawed through to ma.ke a j (sufficient aperture for the o;er-j Jition proper, and nine longitu-! dinal .sutures were put in thej heart itself, which, it :.s expretcd.j will heal "by first intention," j giving the patient a new lease of life. The second ease, which in fo'tm er times would probably have! been classed among impossible! performances, was that of a young girls in Pittsburg who! had suffered a fracture of one ! of the bones of the leg in an J automobile accident. The b iiiej set and a recovery was ex-j iH'cted a.s a matter of course, j but for some reason nature failed! to go on with the usual knitting process and it seemed probable that the girl would remyiiu per manently eripqiled. The surgeon in charge, how ever, was a man of resources, and lie devised a band of metal ! which was to be chtmjMvl about the two broken ends of the bone and left in position. This band ta- chimp, he constructed of van adium steel and fastened it in place with screws of the same material, so that the girl will go through life with a skeleton that 1 is in part metallic. I A third ease, the desvripti u j of which anpeared just after the' Two others, was that of an in fant who had been borne club footed and taken when onlv two years old to the Post-Craduate ' Hospital for treatment. ThV trouble is defined as a result of! an insufficient. number of bones: in the foot, ami lias been com-! uionly treated by cutting the! ligaments and forcing the foot into a. normal posit icn, in j whieh it 'us confined by metal i braces, after whieh nature is ex-! picted to complete the cure. Satisfactory results have some times been attained in this way, but in a discouraging number of eases the result has been far from satisfactory and the surgeon who und'rtook this cast? resolv ed upon a new method. Obtaining from Hellevue Hos pital the bodies of two children who had been born healthy, .but strangled at birth, he took from them two pieces of bond such as were needed tosupply the lack in tlie feet of the deformed child And these he put in position by the well known methods of bones transplantation. All that re mained was to confine the feet and legs of the patient in, plas ter casts ami await the knitting process of nature. This was done, and it is now expected that the child will be able to walk naturally in due time. Remarkable as these account seem to the lay mind, it i worthy of note that they occa,s-1 iou no great surprise among sur- geons. who indeed seem to be ! so accustomed to the working of j physical miracles that nothing sho-rt of actually restoring life to a dead body seems, likely to iisfoui-sli them. They serve, how ever, to recall the opinion of Napoleon lSonaprate, whose knowledge of all subjects of hu man, interest has always been held to have been really marvel lous. He is quoted as s.'ising that he bad a poor opinion of medicine but the highest respect f"r the profession of surgery. And it is likely that lie had as many op portunities to observe the prac tice of the two sciences as any one ever had, to say nothing of his having provided more op portunities for such practice than any one else in modern times. Jt in therefore! somewhat of the nature of the irony of fate that Napoleon III, should have succumbed to the second operation he underwent for stone. Attitude of Surgeons. The attitude of the surgical profession generally may be re alized from the remarks of one of the most prominent members of it, who consented to talk on the explicit understanding that, his name .should not be quoted Such a request, is often made of newspaper writers, but not al ways in good faith. This time, however, there was no question of sincerity. Without the prom ise he positively refused to talk. When the first of the caws cited above was called to his at tention the great surgeon leaned back in his chair and smiled. "It was a creditable perfor mance," he said., "Not every man, even, if lie knew how, would venture to saw through three ribs to get at a man's heart and then take nine; stitches in it to close up a wound. And not every surgeon who might, at tempt such an. operation) would succeed in performing it prop erly. The man who did it in Philadelphia, as you say some body did, undoubtedly under stood his business and is certain ly entitled to credit for having done a clever job. There is no reason to suppose that the pa tint will not rcccover. If the surgeon did hi.s work properly a recovery is to be looked for as a natural consequence- "It seems to tho lay mind, I suppose, a particularly sensa tional operation to penetrate the interior of a living human body and patch up by mechanical means one vi me virai organs such aa the heart, when it. k r- lons v Ricera.re1 Aiul ot course1 in, tie ease of the heart t-'sWms very much more, serious and sen sational by rcson of the fact that death is inevitable in case the action of that organ is .suspend ed for any considerable time, lbit even an operation of that sort is to be considered as a. rollttllj m.-ltfop in flln ivn.iri.in.i of a skilled surgeon. ; "It is perfectly easy to get ac-' cess to the heart by cutting' through, to it and even sawing ; the ribs, as is said to have been! done in the case you cite. Then' when it is laid bare all the Mir- geon has to do is to take it, in i his hand and put his stitches in duickly. It is only a great mus cle, and the stitching does not compare in difficulty with murh that is done in other cas,s. Of course the heart will wiggle, and he will have to hold it very firm ly, but, there is no danger in that. JIo may even grasp it so tightly that its natural action will he suspended for a few seconds without serious results, and a lev. seconds are all that he will re quire for Ids stitching if his tech nic is sufficient for the operation. All depends upon the technic of the oijH-rator, and such an opera tion as this makes no such de mands as are made in a large variety of other cases." "What would you class as the great achievements of modern sur gery?" he was asked. "Well, there are several branches in, which surgery has made great advances in modern tiniiiK," lie answered- "One of these is undoubtedly " gallstone surgery. The excision. of stone has been practiced for many centuries, but it was only when the stone was located in the blad der that the surgeons of the olden times were able to accom plish cures. They were able to reach a stone then with com parative ease and to remove it with safety. They even practis ed the crushing of the stone itself before removal in cases when it was not deemed advisable to make an aperture sufficiently long to allow of its removal with- out crushing, and that treatment was practised centuries ago, but it is only in modem times that your taste and purse, kotu. thing instruments have been devis d to b ase every body. Call and with uhieh the ,'rusliinjtr can be , I'X.-unine s hle books and sam done without i .aking an artificial pics ccn if you are n.-t ready opening. j to buy. J want you to see my "It is only fair to say," he I line. Call at Karp's Store, continued, that this last process j Yours truly, does not seem to have justified it-! Cora Earp. Agent. self. The rcmilt too often fall short of a complete cure, and in my own practice I do not resort to the crushing process any long er. Great Advances Made. "Hut the actual progress made in this branch in modern times is in the lino of gall stone surgery. Within, comparatively few years we have ventured to use the knife in these, eases and have had gnat success. Kidney and gall stones are now removed, where- i ' v e.Num.uee n uiroMimK ,...., , . . , mm, !..... fr)1.i , ,. .,i out the pro Idem of the construe- morning tor the purpose ot ur ns there was formerly no nan . . , A,, . . . .... ' , ,,,, cure known for such troubles. "Another great advance has been made in the line of intes tinal operations, and I would say that it. is in cuses of this kind that the surgeon has the oppor tunity to exercise the highest tech nie that has been attained To enter the abdominal cavity is a simple matter. There is no dif ficulty encountered, aid provid ed the operator understands what i are now regarded as the ele imeiitary principles of surgery ! there is no special danger to be entrv has, been made that the ..v...:,. : ... i.:i lijr fi irf 1 1 1. in i in i inr r nr. i t 11 iiBLCM. iitiiiiii- im eNseiiinii. The enthusiasm f this man, distinguish id as he is in his pro- icssion, is fairly matcncil m an other lirection by the admiration Dr. James J. Walsh of the Ford- ham Medical School entertains for w surgery of tho ancients. I do not undertake to that there is nothing new say in i surgery. i ndoiiDTCdiv there loww things. Gallstone surgery is a re new. i;ut much that is common ly called modern was well known to the ancients and has been res cued from oblivion only within a few years. We have no mono graphs of the ancient surgeons in which they might have detailed their great achievements, but we have their text books and we knew much of what thev did- " i 11 f ! .1 i . 1 1 i,u ol ln lexl ,)(0KS were re m;,v,.i u. i . i afterwanl forgotten but within i brought to light aaiii in France itu b aiul (lorm-mv "We know' that the sneJents ! had their varieties of ' nnaest.het-1 ies, one of the main inhalent. by the use of which thev could re-1 uuee the natient to ami so make an entry into the shun, ine inorax or the atidom- mat a .l ivity without ' causing such k that the patient would b- unable to endure the operation And 'we know that thev were Wei! u eijH.lintld bef antiseptics b( in Use up 'inn-. Thev u with one ef the that have ever to the present d strong wine. which modern practitioners admit is an excellent antiseptic; and by UM'ig it they avoided the aftir effiets of their operations, which without such use would have been fatal. "They were well acquainted with the operation of trephining in times of great antiquity. They operated for stone in the times of the Pharaohs. I have myself seen stones of over four inches in diameter that were taken from living patients in those days And one of the maxims in a text book they used is proof cam ugh of the practice they followed in intestinal cawes. The rule was 'if the intestine is lacerated it must be sewed up. Otherwise the patient will die-' "Then the very name of the Caessirian operation is proof enough that one of the inost deli cate feats of surgery was known o the ancients. "lut the subject Ls inexhaus tible. I could talk all day of ! the wonderful achievements 4 j ancient surgeons, but if any one is interested in the subject the best 1 can do is to refer him to a (booh I puhlished last year en titled 'Old Time Makers of Medi jeirie.' There he, will find con 1 crete instances of what they knew and what thev accomplish ! ed." The fall and winter stylo books j and samples of material are now . ready for your inspection. Coats, 'coat suits and dresses to suit! STATE Democratic Executive Committee Finally Settles the Quajtsion. Raleigh, N. C, Friday, 20. The morning trains carried many enamnitteemen to their homes thoroughly tired out and in a variety of moods over the out- come ot flic practically ail-nignx session of the State Democratic .... . , t . ..a.'. .. - -i. . ii. ..l.: ,llon 01 I'einwrailB UCKCi as prescrLH'd bv the State con.ven - lion rules on who shall nartici- pate in the Senatorial primary. Kvervbodv concedes that the Haek,;'tt resolution that the ex ecutive ce mill it t'f filially adopted and failed to modify in any way, that the "Democratic ticket means all nominees f the Demo cratic party for office," is the literal construction, of the term, but it is the concensus of opinion that thf-re should have been some modification to admit s me de gree of scratching if the fullest ! P01? vote for the general I)e - iinoeratic tieket. asi we II as the i ,, , , . . WHO CAN VOTE IN I PRIMARY. luiiest. r"al lJeiiun'raitic sentiment; ; on t.ne muicinieni alleging inc for Senator arc expressed at the! murder of Conimoinveal'h's At HolIs. It was the disagret inent as'torney William M. Foster, it he- ! to where this line of scratching the tieket should be drawn that made it imjMssiblc, after two hours of effort on the part of the special coiminiittee. of friends given 18 aiwi lo years respective e,'f the three carulida.tfs for Sen-My in the penitentiary. lie en- afor, that blocked all suggests ns ! nt "Krcement tor some, scratchiihg to be permissible Leaders for each of the three candidates are insisting that while the. resolution does not ex- aetly suit them they can put up attorneys for both sides, a change j m lull Japanese costume and with it all right. j of venue to Wytheville was ord- drank a farewell cup of sake Senator Simmons' leaders de- ered by .Judge Staples. Wesley j from cups whieh had been pre elare that they have proven' to' Kdwards will be the first to beaded to the general by Mutsuh the Demrcraey of the .State that : tried, and Monday, October 2S, j ito. they are not' trying, as some is the date set for the beginning! Darkness had fallen, and Gen have charged, to run in a lot of of the trial. end Nogi and the Countess sank Renublieans and override the real' choice of the Dmnocracy for Sen - Governor Kitchin's supporters ivid theso of Chief Justice Clark, Justice rlark a saying that under this resolu- tiou ""'tiral Republieans eertain- h" cannot come in and control the selection of I'nited States Sen ator, as they claim might, have been the case with lhe bars down as to voting the national Demo cratic ticket. They say, how ever, that there should have been, si me licen,se to scratch in a lim-' ited degree the State or local tickets. There are varied surmises as to the probability of another call ed nieetiai.g of the executive com mittee at a later date to try ami adjust the rule so as to permit a reasonable amount ot .scratching The nieetinc of the executive cum m it tee lasted from 8:4.") o'-jin Des Moines. clock this morning and between! It is understood here that Gov - those hours several resolutions , ernor Mann had ordered that cv- and amendments were offered! cry precaution be taken to pre - ami disciussed pro and con, but j vent any outbreak against the. the final result as stated was ! pr.Mua rs r U precim; iuiv pos- tke adoption of the resolution of former ("ongressman U. N. Hack ctt without anv modification. Notice to Members of Farmers Union. Surry Co- Farmers Union will meet in the ('ourt. House at Dobson N. C. on Thursday even- in October 3rd 1012 at 8'o'clockJ and Friday October 4th. Let j Oglesby of Pristol, and C. Francis Harper's Weekly, every member who possibly can,1 Cocke 'of Roanoke, the latti r re- Dental therapeutics dates from bo there.T his will be the' must j presenting Wesley Edwards, he a very remote epoch. It is not interesting and important meet- j having lxcai appointed by the ! known when this art commenced, ing yet held in the County. I'court. Mr. Coke its a memlwr of ; ''t -it is well known that the Every member in good standing! the firm of (ke and Coke of j Egyptian practiced i tto a con whether a delegate' or not will j Roanoke. The attorneys left isiderable extent, be admitted and allowed to par- IlillsvUle this morning, as did! Cn a pa pyrus.se roll estimated tieipate in the proceedings of Judge Staples, who k desirous oi to date back 3,700 years before the meeting. Once more I want ! reaching Roanoke this evening at : Christ, which was found buried, to see the Court room full id j the same time of the arrival of, id the feet of the good Anubis, men ready to do their part in j the prisoners. there were found written rera- tlie great struggle we are now- The word of their coming toadies against painful molars and engaged in to better the condit- Ilillsville- had preceded them and : :i way to alleviate other trouble ions of the tillers of the soil, "on their arrival here there was : f the teeth by means of pidver- Ple-as' b not disappoint me? I shall expect you. 'Fraternally, J- Thos. Smith. Pres. Surry Co. Cnion. What We Never Forget according to science, ure the thim.-s , associated it!i our n rly l:on:e life, j such as Ihickit-n's Arnica Salve, that' mother or Kranilinothe r used to vai our barns, boils. Keald.-, sores, skia erujitions, cuts, siirains or bruises, j Forty years of cures jirme its merit, t Vnrtvalml for ii, conia or cold sores. Only 25 c?nts at lVotdes Drug Co. ALLEN AND EDWARDS' TRIAL. Wcflty Will Be Given. First Hearing Beginning Oct- 28, cn Indictment Charging Murder of William M. Foster, Follow ed By Allen Case for Killing of Judge Massie. Ilillsville, Va., Sept. 2Jrd.-- T . . 1 - 11.. II t ; uuge wainr n. : Roanoke convened Staples, of the Carroll .. , . .. T .on I 1, lilu raigmiiR nnuw, alien una "rarv 1 Edwards, the last two of the i Carroll outlaw elan to be tried for the part j! for the part played by thoiu in the shooting up of the court house here on March 11, last. Owirg to the early hour in which court a.ss nibb d the people from the country districts had not ar rived The people fn III the roiintrv districts ha 1 not arrived. The people of the town, how - ever, were our m mil force 10 see the men iileajl it the very! bar which they were instrumental in destroying- a little over six j months ago Wesley hd" Wehlev Hdwards was arraigned; i , . ,. . . .. in.g the saune on, which Hovd and (Claude Allen are under sentence 'of death, and on, which, I riel Al- lien and Sulna hdwards were ' tered a plea of not guilty. Sidna Allen was then a rraign- j which was found beside his dead ed on an indictment alleging thej body. Then he draped in mourn murder of .Judge Thorton L. Mas- ing a portrait on the wall, of the sic, to which he plead "not guil-llafe Emperor and afterwards he ty." l'y special agreement of i ami his wife dressed themselves At the end of Edwards' case Sidna Allen will be placed on that both men will know their , iate oeiore me execution oi fate before the execution Floyd and Claude Allen, on No - vcmiMT I ourt. adjourned' at;le omy oi rne r.tnpernr was 9:30 o'clock, and tho detectives, ' starting on the funeral car for its with the prisoners, left Ilillsville J hist resting place for Galax bv private conveyance. i Was Great General. expecting to arrive there by moon when they will get. a train for Koanok arrive in R where thev The prisoners will anoke on train No. 2. : will be held in ja:.l ' until the trial of F.dw.tn the; latter part of October. : The prisoners arrid in. III'! -vide etenlay afternoon under guard of about a dozen 1 laid win detectives, headed by Chuf W. G. lialduin. of Roanoke, assisted , 'V 11 made tin Lucas, the two havirg . th s id amn;gaitehi and Tawara capture of the outlaws zaka and was wounded and after jsibditv of their tseape, ami it was for ttiis reason that such ah. avyjeral Nogi was pjHintecl com- giuinl was maintained. The commonwealth at the raigtuiient thin inoriiinig was presented by J. C. Wysor John S. Draper, of Pulaski, S. Poage of Wytheville and S. Floyd Landreth, of Carroll. The only attorneys aippearing for the accused men were Judire N. P. aeeuscd men- were Judge N. P. 'an immense enwil to ifris-t them. The utmost order prevailed and the men were placed immediately in the county jail, where they were guarded night and day by detective. Application for Pardon. On October 1st. application wi'l be made to the (lovernor if North Carolina for my pardon, j All persons tippo-sine my rcleas j are request sl to make it knowni Ui the (lovernor. j Hubert Willis. j FINAL TRIBUTE TO DEPART ED EMPEROR. As Gun Boomed at Surdtwn, Japan's Great Military Leader Drew Sword Across His Threat Tokio, Sept. 13. Count No?!, supreme military counsellor of the Empire and hi wifet CounMw Nog i committed suicide tonight , in accordance with the ancient Jaiuio.se custom as a final tribute to their departed Mmperor and friend, Mutsuhito- The deitli by, their own Inmb of the famous general and his wife was as dramatic a it was sad. I he general eet his throat wih n short nv.rd ai d the count ess eommitt 'd li.ii -l: i i. Folio- ,vii ,g tlo- Samurai eusti m the eoi p, had can fully prepar ed their plans for killing them selves And timed them sc. that they would be co-inci It nf. with ! the departure fore or fi in Tokio i me nean r.mperor. d Make. Final Prepar?i'icrs. Ceiif ral Ne-gi ajid the Countess had attended the funeral s : - vices ot .Mutsuhito at the palace ! icre tewbiy and it was exiect.ei that, they would proceed to Aoyama tonight with the cortege. Instead, however, at the eon.-!i;s ion of the cermeony at the pal ace they withdrew to their modest home in Akasaka, a sub urb of Tokio, and there began, their final preparations) for death. First the general wrote a letter j to tns new hmperor Yoshito, j and awaited tli: signal they had j agreed upon to announce thet: hoomimg of a single gurl in the i j'i-e groiirnis ai iokio wnicn ! was to let the people know that General Count Nogi was a na tional hero in Japan. It was he who captured Port Arthur from, the Russians in lMOl and assured the success (: his count rv in the battle, of Muekden. The Count was born at Ilagi in the pr vin -e of Ghosh u in and wag the eldest soil id MarotMigu Nogi, A Samurai of the Ghosh u clan. During the Saigo rebelli'-n Nogi fought bravely at the hat- the rebellion was suppressed m he w:s made a lieutenant colonel, He commanded the first brigade ! f infantry in the Chino-Japancs war and captured Port Arthur in i one day. On the outbreak of tho husso-Japariese war m l!K)l Oen 'niandcr of the Third army. His ar-j forces took 203 metre hill after re-i terrible slaughter and also de anl ; stroyed the Russian sipiadron ia W. the port. General personally re ceive el General StresseJ's proposal to surrender Port Arthur. The First DemtistS. lsed drugs. The art of is very remote. Egyptian mum lniea haw l't-n found with nudar cavities very farefu'ly closed. Others have articifia! teeth which slum- that in very ancient times this dental process was known. The Chiiv-se cured toothache 2, 700 years before e,ur era. One of their methods was to put iroa nt inthe caviti-s. Despondency Is ofti-n caud by tnd'jrestion f-nd wnstij'.atiou, atnl 4h!. kiy dis p ar hcr Cbamber!ji.in'g Tablets arc tfck 9a tr siie r-T All Dealer.
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