Show AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT A Human Rib Removed While the Patient Pa-tient Was Fully Conscious John Williams a colored man who was shot through the left lung by Gra hame Moore at Kirkwood two weeks ago yesterday submitted to a her ic operation at the City hospital for the royal of half of the seventh rib says the St Louis GlobeDemocrat The operation op-eration was conducted under xomaik able circumstances a lhe patient was not placed under the influence of an anesthetic and remained perfectly conscious throughout the ordeal During Dur-ing the last few days the physicians at the hospital have discovered that I his pleural orlung cavity was continually contin-ually filing with blood He was aspirated as-pirated several times to little effect This process gave but temporary relief re-lief as the cavity filled up with blood and air faster than it could he drained Yesterday morning Dr Marks decided that Williams had to be opened up and one of his ribs resected or cut off to drain the cavity properly and save his life As the bullet had pased through Williams left lungmaking that organ unfit for usethe adminisiation of chloroform chlor-oform was almost sure to be fatal I we do not operate you will die Dr Marks frankly told the colored man and if we give you chloroform you will probably die too I you can stand the painwe can save your life Dats all right go head replied Williams Ah knows yoh doctors are my frens and whatever yoh does Ah knows youse right Williams was placed upon the glass operating table and given several big drinks of whisky The skin of his left side over the seventh rib was then punctured several times with a hypodermic hypo-dermic syringe charged with cocaine The surgeons lance entered his side and cutting clear down to the rib made an incision four inches in length Williams gave one howl but did not flinch a hairs breadth After the rib was laid bare Dr Marks seize i his bone saw and cut it off with half a dozen strokes The pain of this part of the operation must have been excruciating ex-cruciating but Williams whom one of the physicians had engaged in conversation conver-sation kept on talking merely giving vent to an exclamation now and then as ifto emphasize his remaks When three inches of the rib was cut off Dr Marks thrust his lance through the lining of Williams pleural cavity and made a slit in this three inches in length Dr Marks thoroughly cleansed the pleural cavity and packed it with antiseptic gauze stanching the flow of blood As quickly as possible the flaps of flesh were laid back in their places and bandaged over Through it all Williams stood the operation like a hero After the operation Williams temperature tem-perature went down to 10002 from nearly 105 and his respiration lowered from 40 to 20 showing the splendid effect ef-fect of the ordeal He is steadily improving im-proving favor and all chances are in his |