A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 4

A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

The Cleveland (Ohio, U.S.A.) Proas . of Feb, 23, 1883- publishoe an account,, of a fatal surgical operation which has caused a great commotion among/, medical men throughout the whole... country. Dr Thayer, the most eminent , surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing , it scandalous. .It appears that a.Mra.,. King had been, euffering; fof many\,fi years with some.- disease iof -the sto—.-ii" mach which had resisted the; .treafr- .i inent of all the physicians iu^ attend-;;!, ance. The disease commenced/witihiLc a slight derangement of the digestion, with a poor appetite, followed-' by a peculiar indescribable distress in the 'stomachy a lelßnrg'. that has; Kfeen ; de->IL 'scribed as a faint '"all gone" sensation . a sticky slime collecting aUbu't^t'he. teeth,- causing 1 a disageeable . taste, ; especially in, the mqrniijg. „ Thia,^ (Jf .sei^egtipn was- not removed by, ifood»u, ; , but op the. contrary, it was increases iii .The. eyes then .became tinged w'ith jt< yellow^ and were' ; sunken. •'• : After?. 1 ' awhile the hfftds aiid ;feOV b^ittoe'; qojd* and 'sticky^— a cold perspiration,. K ? 'jhjßre was' a. constant .t'irecj pnHlanrJj giiid' ieeling.. ,Then '..* follo.wed "••a •„, dreadful .nervousness, „with . •forebodings, When rising suddenlythere came a dizzy feeling like! vertigo: Afrera;timc thebowelsbe;cam«.. costive, so that it was. difficult to pro^.' \ cure a ; movement without a" cathartic. Soon, followed a disposition ; to, spit op the. food. after eating, cometimes 1 in .aii. tiiaur, iermenjed condition. All this'* derangement caused a terrible palpitjatio'h of the heart,' so as to make the ' , breathing' difficult.' 'Finally .the patir 1 enti ~was unable "to retain any "food whatever, ( and, there was const-apt pain in ; the abdomen. All prescribed*' remedies failing to give reiief a consultation 'was held, when 'it was de- ' decided that the patient had a qancer in the stomach, and, in order to save the patient's 'life, an operation was performed by Dr Vance, in the, presenee of Dr Tuckermanj Dr Perrier, ■■•■ Dr Arms, Dr Gordon, Dr Lapuer, 1 andi fc>r Halliwell, of the •"'•(police.,. Boarti. The; operation consisted in !■ paying open tlie cavity of the ab 1 dotnen '^ jj,ed exposing, the stomacjij Rowels, \ Liver and pancreaV. :^'heii .this had.been done, ,an examination .of tho organs was made, but, to the- horror' and dismay of the doctors, there waa i • t.o ertneet 1 ; 'When too late, the ' meditfal mea discovered £hat they: had - made a terrible ir istako. They sewed ' the part* together and dressed _.she\,--wound that they had made, but the woman sank from exhaustion and died in> a few hours. How sad it must be for the husband of this rioor woman to J know that his wife aied froni the T effects oi a surgical operation that ©ught never to have been performed. If this woman .had taken the proper remedy fur dyspepsia (for this is what the disease really was), . she would ■ have been living tu-day. SeigelV^ Curative Svrup, a remedy, made expressly for dyspepsia" or. mSeg^stion^. has inany such cases, to perfect health after all other kind* oi ; treatment have failed. The' evidence of its eme*cy in curing this class of cases is too vuluroindua to &e pub- * jisHed hero; but those who' r.ead the published .evidence. 'in; favour of this jlyspeptic remedy do noi question lts^ convincing. natur,e;,*nd; the. .article" * has an extensivei sale.; Sold bytall*' Chemists "and Medicine Vendors throughout' the ' world, :anfl Ji by ■ , the proprietors, A. J. White, L'iinjtedj*'