A WRINKLE FOR FAT PEOPLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2070, 10 July 1890, Page 3

A WRINKLE FOR FAT PEOPLE.

Two Paris doctors have just performed the curious surgical operation of changing a fat man into a lean one. This operation, which goes by the appropriate name of degraissage, was entirely successful, and the patient experimented upon, who was formerly a man of unwieldy proportions, is now dancing about in the best of spirits and in clothes several times too large for him. M. Hiregenelle, the fat man is a medical student, residing in the Latin Quartier. M. Hirogenelle decided that any treatment would be better than to be weighed down into his grave under his lode of degenerate fat. In fact, he decided to undergo anything for the sake of relief, and so it "was arranged that Dr Marx, who was to be assisted by Dr Demares, should proceed to cut away the superfluous fat. Accordingly, some days ago, all being made ready, M. Hirogenelle was duly stretched upon his back, and had chloroform administered. The doctors for the first operation chose the abdomen, where the accumulation of adipose matter had formed an enormous flabby fold. Two parallel cuts were made about 40 centimetres in length, and 15 centimetres apart. Then, the skin being laid back, the operators proceeded to excavate the mass of fat. This being successfully accomplished, the wounds were sewn up and the patient, allowed to come to himself, declared that he had suffered nothing. His first words were, " I am hungry." The doctors propose to begin again at other parts of M. Hirogenelle's body, and will continue the process until the degraissage is complete.