Show I THIRD WONDER IN SURGERY Complete Excision of Stomach of a Cancer Patient San Francisco Feb 26Dr Charles B Brigham has added another testimony testi-mony to the progress of modern surgery sur-gery On Thursday last at St Lukea hospital he made complete excision of the stomach of a female patient suffering suf-fering with cancer and at a late hour I last evening 36 hours after the operation opera-tion she was resting comfortably with almost a normal pulse and temperature It will be at least a week however before be-fore there can be well grounded hope for complete recovery The patient is 65 years old and for I the past three months has taken nothing j noth-ing but liquid food and that In very small quantities I is is the third operation of the i kind on record The first and undoubtedly I undoubt-edly successful case was performed in Zurich Switzerland In September of I last year Dr Brigham conducted the operation I upon much the same methods followed by Dr Carl Schlatter in Zurich and his I patient will be nursed back to strength I under a similar diet If Dr Brighams i patient progresses as well as the one I in Switzerland chicken will bo on her I bill of fare 20 days hence The only other case of record is the I unsuccessful one reported from St I Louis a few weeks since which resulted t disastrously I |