Daily Health Service Removing Entire Lung New Neto Step in Surgery I By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN FISHBEIN P People the world over ove are arc re awed by one of the most remarkable cases of surgery in which an entire lung I was removed and the patient lives ives to tell the tale Just as striking 05 us this unique operation operation oper oper- alien Is the fact that the patient was wasa a 3 year old child Doris Yost of Keyser Keyser Key Key- ser serf W. W Va Dr William F. F Jr o o of Johns Hopkins hospital at Bal timbre imore found that a cancer In the pa passage passage pas pas- sage to the girls girl's left leU lung was lung was growIng grow grow- Ing ng so dangerous that it shortly w would uld block lock off oU her windpipe and strangle her herA A few months previous another surgeon had removed a lung successfully success success- fully from an older person and so Dr decided this was the only way to save the life of Doris The child is back home living an apparently apparently ap apparently r normal life with the use use of only her right lung S This case is particularly important be because use it shows the necessity of complete complete com corn removal of f tissues in which cancer cancer can can- occurs if it the cancer is not to spread and to attack other parts of the body Such operations obviously are difficult and can an be performed only by surgeons of ot wide experience and those who have access t to the necessary necessary essary apparatus to sustain breathing during the operation and to protect the patient against shock and bleed in ing It shows shows' also the great safety of modern surgery as compared with the dangers to patients under C conditions in the thep p past pastAs st. st As scientific medicine has advanced advanced ad ad- surgeons have been able top toI to p I delve deeper and omd de deeper per into the human human hu hu- man body Once upon a time it was 4 considered invariably fatal to open the abdomen For a while the brain brilin never could b be touched Copyright 1933 NEA NEA Service S Inc