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Show MISS WHITNEY IS BETTER Heiress to Millions Is Recovering. Was Under the Knife in New York Hospital for Appendicitis. Ap-pendicitis. Girl Went Bravely Into the Surgeons' Hands and Survived Operation Which Killed Father. NEW YORK, June 23. After undergoing under-going an operation for appendicitis appendi-citis the disease from which W. C. Whitney died his daughter, Miss Dorothy Whitney, Is reported to be well on the way to recovery. Dr. Andrew McCosh, assisted by Dr. Clarence A. McAndrew, performed the operation on the young heiress ln the home of Harry Payne Whitney, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street. It was not what Is called an ''emergency" operation, as waa that on her father. However. It had become apparent that Miss Whitney would have to go under the knife soon or risk the grave dangers of peritonitis." Dr. McCosh said Miss Whitney showed the greatest courage and Joked with her sister-in-law before being placed upon the operating table. Miss Whitney Inhaled the laughing gas first, then ether was used. She was under the knife for thirty minutes, and when the annoying appendix was removed re-moved it was found to bo much inflamed in-flamed and enlarged. Diseaso of Long Standing. Two years ago Miss Whitney llrst showed symptoms of appendicitis, but her father would not hear of an operation. opera-tion. For a while the disease subsided, but last winter when at a dinner the young girl waa seized by a violent attack at-tack and was ill for a week. Her father at the time would not consent to an operation. One week ago, when In Westbury, Miss Whitney had another attack. She urged an operation, but said she would not go to a hospital. Harry Payne Whitney, her brother, to whom she Is devoted, said he would have a suite in his house fitted as an .operating-room and Miss 'Whitney came in from Westbury. Was Bravo Woman. Dr. McCosh said last night at his home In No. 16 East Fifty-fourth street: "Miss Whllnej', of course, suffers from the ether, but I should call the operation opera-tion perfectly successful. I do not expect ex-pect any complications, because her general health Is excellent. A surgeon cannot say much about an nppendlcltls operation. All are alike nnd L should say this Is neither an Interval nor an emergency case. An operation was inevitable, in-evitable, but it could have been delayed de-layed for a month or two. I shall say that Miss Whitney showed the greatest great-est courage for a girl so young. This evening she was beginning to take an interest In things around her." Miss Dorothy Whitney, the only unmarried un-married child of William C. Whitney, Is one of the greatest of Aemrican heiresses, heir-esses, and some day her wealth will bo 5C.000.000 approximately. Barring her best friend, Miss Gladys Vanderbllt, she Is the wealthiest girl of her age In New York society, although she has had only a fleeting glimpse of the world of fashion. Miss Whitney will make her home with the Harry Payne Whlt-neys. |