A Surgical Triumph
The hospitals and medical schools of Paris are greatly execi ted ove? an unprecedented surgical operation, by which an Algerian doctor, Prengraeber, has just saved the lif§ of a child in the last stages of oon^ sumption. The little girl, aged twelve, was brought to the Hospital Trousseau wasted almost to a skeleton. The nurses and doctors were so touched by her sufferings that they declared that death would be a mercy. After long hesitation Dr Prengraeber determined to risk an operation, first chloroform* ing the child. He made a cruciform incisiou, between the fifth and sixth right ribs, and burned out three cubic, centimetres of the diseased port ion of the lung with a red hot iron. In three weeks the wound healed and the blood coursed healthily through the child's veins. >he picked up flesh, grew strong, and she was sent home cured. In the enthusiasm aroused by this surgical achievement many people imagined that we have now a sure means of conquering con-, sumption. This is not the opinion o{ most authorities notably of Dr Verneuil, On being questioned on the subject Dr Verneuil said thai nothing new had beeo accomplished. Pneumotomy had been tried betore., Another surgical triumph had beeij recorded ; that was all,
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 74, 23 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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211A Surgical Triumph Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 74, 23 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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