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Show AGED VirmtAX LOOSES HIS 1IKIHT AltM Joseph Slater, Sr Is in u very bad way, Buffering from u cancer. The malignant growth has eaten away nearly all tho Mesh from ono hand nnd Ih now eating up his arm. An opern-tloc, opern-tloc, which inOaiiB tho removal of his nrm Is being seriously discussed, but ii is lenreu that because of IiIb advance ad-vance i' ngo and weakened condition biich mi operation would bo extremely dangerous. Tho operation reforred to wns performed per-formed Wednesday by Urs. Holbrook, HnBlor and Noyes. Tho right arm was taken off about three Indies nbove tho elbow. Tho patient cmn.i out of tho unnesthetlc flno and rallied satisfactorily after the oporntlou. Ho Is 82 years of ogo nnd is probably good for hoternl more years, though tho result of this operation will bo watched with much anxiety by his many friends. |