Show SPINAL PINAL CORD W WAS AS S. S CUT IN TWO BUT ii 1 r i MAN NAN IS WELL IS-WELL 0 NOW S NEW r-EW YORK July 6 Alexander r Adre- Adre hi hl whose spinal corn was severed by a bullet about t four y years S ago w will soon be beS f S t Discharged from the City y hospital on onS on'S k S 'S Blackwells Blackwell's Island entirely well This i case has attracted the attention of the jt S i medical fraternity owing to to- the remarkable remarkable remark- remark J able success of the operation which was waa performed by th tha late Dr George Ryerson Ryerson Ryerson Ryer- Ryer son Fowler May 9 9 1903 The ends of ot the severed cord were drawn together was shot In the back during a a. street fight In Brooklyn When he was wasS S taken to the hospital the lower part of the body was completely paralyzed The i r. r i bullet passed between the tenth and j J S eleventh vertebrae They were both badly S. shattered S Less than a month after atter the operation the patient was as able I to move O his toes and tl the tha following H ge geO he was s togi able to f sIt elt up Electricity and massage treatment treat- treat 1 I ment were then used After a while Ad Ad- rehl rehi was rigged up tip In a cage chair some som S thing gi like e rig erig that used by ab babies when f learning learn learn- big ing to walk al 7 During the e winter of 1905 he began to toS feel sensations In his body below the thet v- v S wound Twenty-six Twenty months after ater the InJury InS injUry In- In S Jury he was able to stand by resting his i. i hands bands on a chair can now walk 1 if 0 up p and down stairs without the use of c crutches e or braces S This I Is so said t to be be the only operation of its kind to have resulted successfully |