Salt Lake Tribune | 1895-07-06 | Page 3 | His Left Side Gone

HIS LEFT SIDE GONE physicians take away a mans ma ns arm collar done bone and shoulder slade blade new york july I 1 special dispatch dispa tell to tile the globe democrat one of the most remarkable surgical operation recorded in tile past year was performed on oil william green a former theater usher at the charity hospital on blackwells island last week green was affife teil with a tumor that pow grew in EL a wound over hla shoulder blade will which ell was the result of a fall it was ta decided clod to remove the cot collarbone collar ar bone bonc shoulder blade arid and arm an assistant raised the left arm and beli it in position PoSit tun the operator made an in incision the entire length ot of the collarbone collar bone and down back over the shoulder blade A slight flow ot of blood 1 lood was quickly sponged away the tha surgeon then laid bare the collarbone collar cullar bone chocking arteries with forceps and catgut ligatures the cartilage joining th the collarbone collar bone lione to the fieast bi east bone wati aoa next severed and then the e was raised and entirely rem removed oled tile the operator dissected tile the skin exposing tin the shoulder mafle blade a tier after which lie ho severed the muscles which held it to tile back then lie he made a circular I 1 incision I 1 icis loll beneath the arm and through tile the muscles of the breast the ami ail and der blade were then free and the operator placed them on the table with the clavicle tile tho entire left side had been removed and yet not more m 0 re than tha n a tablespoonful of blood wan wai lost the operation took just fust one hour and forty minutes find and tho the patient tills lias b ci c i steadily gaining Ral strength ever since only three other oilier operations operation ot of the kind aro are I 1 le ecord corded ed one ot of these w waa t in ill franco ofie in england Er eland and one in Am america trica