A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5142, 10 July 1885, Page 3

A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

The Cleveland (Ohio, U.S.A.) Press, of Fob. 23, 1883, publishes an account of a fatal surgica' operation which has caiued a groat commotion among medical men throughout the whole country, Dr Tliayor, the moat eminent surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing it ecandalons. It appears that a Mrs King had bean suffering for mnny yeers wnh sorno disease of the stomach which had resisted the treatment of all the physicians in attendance. The disease commenced with a slight derangement of the digestion, with a poor appetite, followed by a peculiar indescribable elistreee in the stomach, a feeling that has been described as a faint "all gone" sensation, a sticky clime collecting about the teeth, causing a disagreeable taste, especially in the morning. This sensation was not removed by food, but on the contrary, it was increased. The eyes then became tinged with yellow, and were sunken. After awhile the hands and feet hecame cold and etickj—a cold perspiration. There wns a constant tired and languid feeling. Then followed a dreadful nervousness, with gloomy forebodings. Whan rising suddenly there came a dizzy feeling like vertigo. After a time the bowels became costive, co that it was difficult to procure a movement without a cathartic. Soon followed a dispoeition to spit up the food after eating, sometimes in a soar fermented condition. All this derangement caused a terrible palpitation of the heart, co as to make the breathing difficult. Finally, the patient was unable to retain any food whatever, and there was constant pain in the abdomen. All prescribed remedies failing to give relief, a consultation wbs held, when it wos decided that the patient had a cancer in the stomach, and in order to save the patie t's life, an operation was justifiable. Accordingly, on Feb. 22, ISB3, the operation was performed by Dr Vance, in the preserce of Dr Tuckerman, Dr Perrier, Dr Arms, Dr Gordon, Dr Lapuer, and Dr Halliwell, of the Police Board. The operation consisted in laying open the cavity of the abdomen and exposing the stomach, bowels, liver, and pancreas. When this bad been done, an examination of the organs was made, but to the horror and dismay of the doctors, there was no cancer to be found. The patient did not have a cancer. When too late, the medical men discovered that they had made a terrible mistake. They sewed the parts together and dressed the wound that they had made, but the poor woman sank from exhaustion, and died in a few hours. How sad it must be for the husband of this poor woman to know that his wife died from the effects of a surgical operation that ought never to have been performed. If this woman had taken the proper remedy for dyspepsia (for this is what the disease really was) she would have been living to-day. Seigel's Curative Syrup, a remedy made expressly for dyspepsia or indigestion, has restored many such cases to perfect health after all other kinds of tr. atinent have failed. The evidence of its efficacy in curing this class of cases is too voluminous to be published here, but those who read the published evidenoe in favor of this dyspeptic remedy do not queetiou its convincing nature; and the article has an extensive sale. Sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the world, and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 17, Farrington road, London, B.C.