GAVE HER A NEW GULLET

Otaki Mail, 11 April 1923, Page 4

GAVE HER A NEW GULLET

THE LATEST IN SURGERY. I The eminent Bullish surgeon, Profcs--1 ' S or Thorkild Rosviiig, in a lecture to -( the Medical Society, London, recently . •jvelosed i.etails of a highly interesting and quite successful operation he j performed in the early part of 1921. The patient was a woman, aged 34, and owing lo trouble in the gullet, it was impossible for foot! to pass to the (Stomach in the natural way. Professor Rosving- therefore made a double incision down the skin of the chest, and. | raising the two edges of the skin lying { between the two incisions, wrapped ,i them around a temporary rubber tube in such a way that when the edges of the skin joined together they them*sclves formed -i natural tube. f fh.. skin of the chest ieycmd.tim iwo incisions was then .s-’ielehed over the exposed parts. S-ut sequent!*- the upper end of the natural skin tube was, by a further operation, attached to the gullet and later the lower end was attached to the stomach, thus making a coni iniiiiu- cIU M" I for food chewed in pass inside through the gullett, and (hut rut-ide the tody through the skin -do into the stomach. Tim complete ■ operation took about six months. • ut it ivtts the first of its kind, ora future ..pernlions should not require s.j long a period. The patien'- left the i capital in August li«2t. and is now i-J ie t'- look after herself, her home duties, and her , five children.