A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 34, 29 August 1885, Page 4

A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

The.Cleveland (Oliio, U.S.A') Press of Feb, 23, 1883- publishes an account of a fatal surgical operation which hSs caused a great com motion ' among- ;i medical men throughput the a' countryj Dr Thayer, the most; eminent. ,, surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing:, J it scandalous. It appears .tiiat a Mrs *" Kinjf bad been suffering' for } inatiy"- u years w-ith some disease of the stow it mach which had >' resisted^thet'TtreM l .jnent of all the phy,*jciansjn.a|ite]^-^ o ance. Ihe disease^ commenced wi^h,^ a slight derangement of theuigesnon. with a poor ' appetite, fottbwetl! n bj (> 'a'' t ; peculiar inc^scnbable^ distress- f iß ; thiM -stomach, & feejing, TEa^'h'as^een de- . scribed as afarnt- <i alFudiie" ; «eEßation a sticky slime collecting about the teeth, causing a disageeablej taste, especially in the morning-. This sensation was not removed by r foo; fl 1 , but on the coi.trary, it; was .incceasea, , a The eyes then, became .jtinge^ .ss(s< .j yellow, and were sunken v , * tSiter*'. awhile the hsiiuis arid 7 r feet! became* ' cold and stick y^a cold p'ereplratitfn 1 ; J There was a' coristanutired&aihel lan*<f quid teeling. Then" .follQ^vedjjj^ii dreadful iiervou&nesßj--w-ifcb- gloomy iorebodings. . When: rising. siujdgn^jr there came x a dizzy ; feelin^like Ver« - iig' , After a tim • the bowels became costive, so that it was, difficult tpnrpuure a movement without a cathartic, followed 8 > disposition 'tb'^piii! 6p?° the food after eating, 7 sometimes ( 6i w* sour, iermen ted condition..) All.thift ( f derangement caused a ; terribleipalpin^ tatiou of the heart, so as to. make, jtnai o breathing, difficult. Finally the pati- . . '.•:* I!'.! 1 ., (it VST ent, was unable to retain any rood whatever, and there was consiarit'pain 7 ' in the abdomen. All prescribed i remedies failing to give relief a> con-mi sultation was . held, when' it 'was^da^ decided that the patient had ; a cancer, j in tbe stomach, and, in order to '£ av sr the patient's life, an operation; -was" performed by Dr Vance, in the' J pre^ senee of Dr Tuckerma'n,' Dr-Perrier^! Dr Arms, Dr Gordon, Dr Lapuer, ;I and Dr Halliwell, . of, the< . - Jfpljce :r f Hoard. The operation consisted in laying open, the cavity of the abdomen r ° uud exposing the stomach, bowels/ 1 liver and pancreas. When this" 'hadP been done, an examination ;«f-vtho<r organs was made, but, to the^ hor;ror ; *i and dismay of the doctors, there, was t no cancer. VVhen . too late,, the medical men discovered that tiiej had s made a terrible iristake. ' They sewed ll the part- together and dressed "the" wound that they had made; but , the i woman sank from exhaustion, and died'C in a few hours. How sad it must^b^ for the husband of this poor .woman to know that his. wife died from "the* effects of a surgical operation h that* l ought never to have been performed!) If this woman had taken the proper?) remedy for dyspepsia (for thisis whas* the diijase really was), she ; would, ht Vi been, living tj-day. S,eigei's' Curative Syrup, a remedy made ! ex '; pressly 'oV dyspepsia 1 or -ihdegestiion/ has restored many such cases to per4i feet health alter all o her kindajpfl treatment have failed. , The evidence ot its efficHcj in cueing this claas.pf cases is too vuluminqus to be*pub- r lished here, but those i whip r read" the* published evidence in favour f of ■this' l dyspeptic remedy do not question: its> convincing nature; and the .articles has an extensive , sale. .,. .Spiel -by r .aj^ Chemists, and , Medicine Venidork throughout the world, and "by^t'ne propriefars, "A. J. Whitej > Ilimitedp 17, Farrington-roaiJ; 'LdtidAnfElCS «"t : ' ■'■■■- : -- ■■■ : ■.-• .t* '<■■ ».,.:.f». -^