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Show TUS rAKAGKAl'IIIST of the Alta California is, or used to be, an M. D., hece we clip the following paragraph ifrom that lively sheet : A FrUh mrjiwn has made an important impor-tant discovery. It coasts in u-irK a wire, heated lo suiiable d.-nrvv, l-v vol-tuc vol-tuc electricity, in p.-t of a knife, in urcu al operation. It is . laim.M. tlat vui tbo aiiparatu- he hnj prerri.i,wi'i,-h )i5 bon erhibited to the Soei- tv ' of 1'ari?. a tumor ean lv extract.-.! without with-out the Io?s ofa i:-; drop of blool- .Vs dantrer from hemorrhsfj-- ort-u deters a urgvon from pi'rformmjj an operu'.ion upv'n a debiiiiatod patient, the d;-eovory vrill enable the eteu?kn of more relief to auileriDg mankind. About a year ago we witnessed the removal ofa cauliflower cancer from the womb ofa Pioche lady, the operation ope-ration being performed in this city, and by this very prccess, by Dr. J. M. Benedict. The Al:a paragraphist must be remarkably negligent, as a member of the profession, the fact having been duly chronicled at length in the Herald, which the A'.ta reg-1 ularly receives. It was the more I noteworthy as being the first applies-! tion of this discovery west of New Vork. |