Show I MINUS HIS COI AIt KOATX I Adolph Hetlcr of Marcy and Graham avenues Brooklyn left the Long Island college hospitals yesterday minus his left collar bone He had been in the hospital over a month and had been the subject of one of the rarest and most difficult operations in surgery He sustained a fracture of the left clavicle or collar bone while at work some weeks ago The fracture frac-ture was set but a tumor formed alongside along-side of the break This was removed After a while it formed again and the patient was taken to the Long Island college col-lege hospital Dr H Beekman Delatour of 53 Eighth avenue professor of surgery at the hospital hos-pital took the patient under his supervis len He saw that the bone was decaying on account of the tumor and that it would have to be removed July 21 the patient was placed under the influence of ether and the operation was performed The whole of the left collar bone and the tumor were removed by Dr Delatour and his assistant The operation took forty minutes and was seen by a large number of students Helter left the hospital without with-out any sign of having lost his collarbone collar-bone there being absolutely no deformity resultant on the operation He has the free use of his an Dr Delatour says that Hetler will not feel the loss if his collar bone and that the muscles will take the place of it The ul late Dr Valentine Mott of New 1 York city is said to be the only surgeon I on record who had ever performed a similar simi-lar operation New York World |