AMERICA'S SURGICAL MARVELS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1141, 2 September 1913, Page 4

AMERICA'S SURGICAL MARVELS.

According to Dr George Suffa, who read a paper before the American Homoeopathic, Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society, at Chicago, tucks are being used a great deal this year as a remedy for the perplexing ailment known to the laity as cross eyes, and to men of science as convergent strabismus. The method of clearing the comp Heated vision of these unfortunate people consists in taking a tuck in one of the muscles that control the ball of the eye. For years eye doctors have been using their little shears and nipping the muscle that makes the eye misbehave. Then Dr Suffa invented the method of tightening up the muscle on the other side, just as a man tightens his braces. Among the novel results of the year’s work was the discovery by Dr Harold Foster, of New York, of a method of removing tonsils with the finger. “It is very simple,” said he. “I put the patient to sleep, and then reach down and pick them like cherries —snap, and it’s all over. It takes about issec. You must have a strong grip.” Another speaker at Chicago lamented that American allopaths had not accepted the challenge of the American homcepaths to compete in the treatment and cure of a selected assortment of maladies, each according to his special school, the effect of the test cases to be judged by a jury representing allopaths and homoeopaths equally. In no other way, it was suggested, could a profitable decision be reached regarding the most successful methods of treatment, and in the absence of such a trial by jury the public would remain mystified about their ailments and their cures.