Wonderful Surgical Feats.

Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1899, Page 2

Wonderful Surgical Feats.

The New York , correspondent of the London " Daily Mail " ia re. Hponsible for the publication of the , t following remarkable surgical feats * said to have been accomplished in the United States. Cabling on July 5 he says :—" Mr John Foster, a Cleveland millionaire, underwent a remarkaple operation in one of the Chicago Hoepitals ytsterday. He was suffering from a serioua abdominal ailment. The doctors in diagoo. sing the case made him swallow an , indiarubber balbvcoTereimthphofco- "* graphic film, which was inflated antil it completely filled the itomach. An X-ray exposure was then made, the bulb deflated and the. film with* drawn. When developed an excellent photograph of the interior of the stomach was secured, revealing the presence of a large tumour, which would soon have proved fatal. It will now, however, be removed." If anything a still more wonderful exhibition of heroic surgery is given in the following statement cabled on the same day : " Afc Binghampton yesterday Louis Ginsberg, a Jewish * Babbi, waa itabbed through the

heart by a negro, and fell dying. The Rabbi's ribs were parted, and the heart exposed. The physicians injected saline solution to replace the blood between the pulsations, and a doctor rapidly pasßed a needle and thread through the left ventricle and took several stitches. The patient rallied, lives, and it is believed, will recover."