EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL CURE OF CONSUMPTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL CURE OF CONSUMPTION.

The hospital and medical schools of Paris are full of a nnrvelloaa, thought not quite unprecedented surgical operation, by which an AJgirian doctor, Pengcaeber, has just BJved tha life of a child m the laat atago of oonanmpMon . Tho little girl, aged twelve, vtbb brought to tho hospital, Trousseau, waetrd almost to a okeltto;i. The nurses and doctors were so touched by her sufferings that they declared death would be n mercy. After a Knghseitition, Dr Pen^ra- b«e determined tn rick on operation, firat ohl Toformlng iln child Hb m tde a cruciform incieioii, ketwe&n th ■ fifth and Blxth ribs, and burned out »hrte cubic centimetres! of t he diseased ! portion of the lung with a red hot iron, la ihree weeks the wound healed, aud tho blood coursed healthily through tho child's volna. She picked up, m fl.sh, grew strong, and she wib sent home cared In tho enthusiasm aroused by this s rg cal achievement many people imagined that we hid now a sure means of conquering cotsDmption. This Ir not tho opinion of most BUthoritio3, notably of Dr Veineuil. On being questioned on the eubject, Dr Verneuil said that nothing now had betn ao3omplls-hed, Paoumoton y had been tried before. Another surgical triumph had been recorded ; that was all,