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Show SnrRienl Operation. ! Yesterday Dr. J. M. Benedict skill-1 skill-1 fully performed a critical surgical operation on Mrs. Henrietta., wife of ! Tnonias -Scbotield, of Ccntreville, Davis county. The lady has suffered : much from an encysted tumor, which has been growing under the right arm : for eight years, and which lias nearly doubled in size during the-past six months. The patient way placed under un-der the influence of ether, and in a remarkably short time the Doctor removed re-moved the tumor, which was oval shaped, about five inches long and three inched in diameter, and tilled : with various sizes of hydatic cyst, some partially filled and others sound and full. Such tumors arc caused by ' unnatural or hybrid cell growth, are not necessarily dangerous to life, but 1 are painful and frequently grow.rap-i grow.rap-i idly to considerable sizes. The case of yesterday was the first that Dr. B. ! has attended in the Territory, and he ! treated it in a masterly manner. lie was assisUil by Drs. F. D. Benedict j and S. Ji. Young. |