A CLEVER SURGEON.
ONE OF HIS EXPERIMENTS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] New York, April 12. Doctor Alexis Carrel, the eminent French-American surgeon, described the latest surgical experiments before the American Surgical Association. He said he had clamped a pedicle of a subject's heart, and stopped the circulation for throe minutes, during which lie performed a rapid operation upon the aorta. He then undamped the pedicle and allowed the circulation to resume. The operation was successful. Dr. Carrel said that he thought an operation of a similar character on human bsings was quite possible as a euro for valvular diseases of the heart.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 94, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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104A CLEVER SURGEON. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 94, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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