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Show I FRENCH SURGEON TO GIVE LECTURE HERE Dr. Octave Laurent Will Explain Operations Performed Per-formed Behind Lines. Dr. Octave Laurent, eurgreon of the military hospital in tho Grand Palais at 1'aris, winnor of tho first prize of sciences sci-ences of Paris and, honorary member of tho Academy of Medicine of Rio do Janeiro, Ja-neiro, is. in Salt Lake to lecture on the nature of tho heart, and will illustrate his lecture with specially made motion pictures. He will explain to local physicians and the public the nature of tho life organ and the operations which he has performed per-formed behind the trenches and in research re-search work. Dr. Laurent is in America with a view to establishing a laboratory for research, for which a foundation will be required. Ho is credited with performing a number num-ber of remarkable cures of the heart while a major In the Frencli hospital corps and with some successful operations opera-tions in the line of bone and muscle praftinpr. He contends that llfo may be considerably prolonged as a result of conducting further research into the treatment of affectljns of the heart While In Chicago Dr. Laurent addressed ad-dressed the Alliance FVanealse of that city. He has a number of Interesting motion picture films, showing the work done in the hospitals during the war. Announcement of the time and place of his lecture will be made later. |