Show I SAVED THE PATIHHS lift I SENSATIONAL EPISODE AT OPERATION IN CHICAGO Dr Ludlam jr Seizes the Instrument Instru-ment From His Dying Fathers Rand and Continues Work Chicago April 29Dr Reuben Lud lam sr presIdent of Hahneman Medical Med-ical college and one of the most widely wide-ly known homeopathic practitioners of the world was strIcken wIth heart disease dis-ease tOday just at the critical poInt in an operation he was performing at the college hospital Although Dr Ludlam was carried from the operatlngroonl in a dying condition his son Dr Reuben Reu-ben Ludlam jr who had been acting as assIstant Immediately seized the Instrument from his fathers imand and to save the life of the patient continued contin-ued the surgIcal work Dr Ludlam sr expired within live minutes jn a room adjoinIng the oper atingroom but it was not until a half hour afterward that the son the patient pa-tient having come safely through the operation went to hIs sIde The patient was a woman The op I I cration was the removal of a fibrolll tinner of large sIze from the abdominal abdom-inal cavity The patient will probably recocr as the result of young Dr I Ludlams service |