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Show jUHVELS OF SURGEltr. THE EBALN PROBED WITH STEEL AND lUvAKLNO RESTORED TO ilUTES. To open the skull and penetrate the brain is not so common a surgical sur-gical feat that it has ceased to be a wonder. Indeed such an operation performed at the Roosevelt JUof pital has attracted the attention ol the entire medical profession. The patient, who is a physician, was thrown from bis carriage last fall, striking heavily upon his head. He was removed to his home,where upon examination no external evi-deuce evi-deuce of fracture of the skull was found. Later paralysis of the entire en-tire right side of the body was developed de-veloped and with it a complete Inability In-ability to express his thoughts; in the course of time the paralysis of the leg gradually disappeared until therotient could move it satisfactorily, satisfactor-ily, but the paralysis of the arm persisted, per-sisted, as well as the Inability to speak. After several months, and while In this helpless and well-nigh hopeless condition, the patient was brought to this city. The physicians who examined him concluded that tliu trouble was due to pressure on the brain, especially on the part of lt which governs the faculty of speech, and that this pressure was probably caused by a clot of blood, resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel within the skull cavity at the time of the Injury. Acting upon this belief It was decided de-cided to open the skull, lay bare the surface of the brain and nmove the cause of pressure if possible. To determine de-termine from the outside of a man's head the precise spot In the brain which governs any particular fee- ulty or function Is obviously a difilcult task. After carefully mapping out the head by the most delicate measurements the spot corresponding to the center of speech In the brain was found. Then the patient, having been rendered unconscious by ether, the surgeon, after the preliminary Incision of the scalp, removed by means of a trephine a round disk of bone Immediately over the spot indicated, in-dicated, somewhat enlarging by the cutting fitrceps the opening thus made. The outer delicate membrane covering the brain was now brought into view. Beneath It lay a large, dark mass of clotted blood, extending extend-ing down Into the substance of the brain. The clot was carefully removed, re-moved, when the effect of its pressure pres-sure was clearly perceived in tho Impoverished circulation of the part. The wound was then dressed with every precaution and the iialient was permitted to recover from tne operation. The following night, for the firt time after his injury, the latient was able to say " 1 es" and "So." The condition of bis right arm was also Improved, and it is l-lieved l-lieved that he will eventually recover. re-cover. As a rule mutes are born deaf, but sometimes severe diseases in infancy in-fancy destroy completely the seue of hearing. Under these circumstances circum-stances even a partial recovery of hearing is extrtmely rare. A girl who is now nineteen completely lost her hearing when three years old through an attack of cerebrospinal cerebro-spinal meningitis, and in consequence conse-quence was brought up as a deaf mute, attending until recently the school of tho Beaf ami Dumb Asylum at Fordham. Coming to Sew York this spring she was placed under treatment with slight hopes of licuefiL Her pliyslclam ascertained that tin) delicate, nervous nerv-ous npiiaratusof tiie internal ear was still sound, eL-e tho case would havo been hojiele-s. Under appropriate appro-priate treatment, combined with dilation di-lation of the middle ear by Inflation, imi rovement was soon noticed. I u a month the young woman heard the ticking of a watch held twenty' Inches away and convcr-ation at a ditanr of ten feet, ami then she began learning how to talk. A month later she could hear a watch at a distance of five feet ami con-verotlon con-verotlon across tho room. A I. IforM. |