Show STRANGE SURGERY how new york cur of nathan a carpenter nineteen years of ago living at no 39 discharged cured from recently tho doctors state eliat ins recovery is something remarkable inasmuch n that on bis admission on the of lat november ho wai found to bo suffering from tetanus or looka iw sustained bv tailing on his head while at w ork lor several days he could not speak and laid violent and very frequent coin ul between these convulsions lie partook only sparingly of milk which was administered johiro by means of an ordinary nursing bottle under these conditions lio lived for a couple of weeks and in alio medication having had no effect the doctors resolved to tho dernier report of cutting off tho nervous supply to aliu seat of injury an operation only very recently brought in vogue only a scalp wound denoted tho location of the injury A hypodermic injection of hydro of cocaine tour per cent solution wa was s fertit introduced beneath the scalp to tho parts md then a tree V shaped incision was made halt way around the scalp wound completely coT cring tho posterior auricular and minor which immediately insulated tho nervous supply from alio seat of injury tho incision was dressed and bandaged antiseptically and ho patient put lo 10 bed his convulsions became less fair quant and in a few days thov acad nl together his jaws gradually relaxed and at length ho was able to articulate and tako solid food three weeks after the operation lie was up and about and on hi departure no man could bo more grateful than and few can lay claim to bavo sis good a reason to appreciate the program of modern surgery it is baid on good authority that previous afi alio llio introduction of this late it operation for lockjaw wenty five per cent of elioe had died V 1 herald |