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Show TO DISCUSS NEW IDEAS IN ANESTHESIA f America's Leading Surgeons Sur-geons Holding Meeting in Denver Today. OPERATIONS WHILE PATIENTS CONSCIOUS Local Applications Remove ' Necessity for Such Dangerous Dan-gerous Speed. : BTTHXDEEICrTTHASKIir. j The annual convention of the American Ameri-can Surgical society meeting in Denver Den-ver todsy, followed by that of the American Medical society in Los Angeles An-geles nsit week, will give opportunity for th exchange of new ideas and discoveries dis-coveries .in .the healing art. as obtained ' from the practical, experience of the leading medical mea in America. ' ' At th convention of surgeons many new ideas will be brought forward regarding re-garding the different methods of anesthesia, anes-thesia, which rs perhaps ths most important im-portant of modern surgery. Every capable ca-pable surgeon hss now some special idea of his. own in regard to anesthetic. 8oms rely almost entirely upon local applications, which do not require in-hslstion in-hslstion and do not in any way affect th consciousness of the patient. A New York surgeon recently performd aa abdominal operation aided only by a local application of aa original combination com-bination of cocaine. The atient experienced experi-enced no pain and was sble to be of reel assistaar to the surgeon by an' swering questions during the operstion. The development of this sort of anesthesia anes-thesia is the Istest and perhaps ths most important step in the surgical advance. ad-vance. One of its advantages' is that it will do awav with the necessity for unquslifled speed, which accompanies operations made while tb patient is in a state of unconsciousness. Haste Qftaa ratal. Whil it- is desirshle that operation should b performed ss rapidly as i consistent with the best results, ther . is ne question but that th nervous haste caused bv th dread of th patient pa-tient coming out from the infloene of the nnesthstie before the end of the operation is responsible for many of the fsilutss aad fatalities attending surgical surgi-cal cases. AmertehS-ha led thw 'syiVld in th development de-velopment of anesthetics, and is still taking front rank in this respect. The us of ether, which- at th time of 'itt discovery revolutionised surgical science, sci-ence, is conceded to be of American origin. It is generally supposed to have been discovered bv two dentists - of England, although it was subsequent Iv found thst a southern physician had been using the formula for some time without msking it public The London surgeons who tested th "Yankee method" in th early part of the nineteenth nine-teenth century wer unanimous ia approving ap-proving it, but the appropriatioa mads by the United States congress as a reward re-ward for th discovery of ether never wss claimed, because it never hss been absolutely proved who first discovered it. Bowed Bing in Patient. Th ns of robber glove ia another American invention which haa greatly helped surgery during the past ten years. It is much easier to render th gloves sterile and antisepti than th surgeon 'a hands, snd ths danger of infection in-fection to both tb patient and operator opera-tor ia considerably lessensd. The poesi-hilitv poesi-hilitv of a ring alipping from tb ur- Son's linger aad being sewed up in e patient 'a interior, requiring another . eperstioa for its removal, aa occurrence occur-rence which recently caused a lawsuit ia Paris, would be entirely obviated by th ns of rubber gloves. At th convention of surgeons aad also that of tb medical society, the subject of local anesthesia will be much discussed, as this is the problem most in the minds of both elnases of practitioners practi-tioners at present. A surgeon from Washington. D. C, who will present a paper at Denver, lately attracted no small amount of attention by his skilled work in ben manipulation. Nature I Bant Bepairer. Oa of hi recent operations consisted ia moving a sectioa of th large bone of the legZnelow th kae aad replaeiag it with a section of th smaller bone from the same member of the body. He accomplished the whole task, including includ-ing the sawing of the bone, with no ether aid than a local anesthetic. The patient haa recovered entirely aad suffers suf-fers no inconvenience from the fact thst a part of one bona waa tskea to supply th lack of th other. It ia a curious fact that in many esse -a piece of Jben taken away ia this man aer is perfectly supplied by a natnsel growth. Aa a brilliant surgeon rams ra-ms rked at a recent bsnqust: "Nature ia her own best repairer. All w sur-geon sur-geon really do ia to plae her oa the right track and stsrt ber off." . when it is proved by practical dent onatratioa that a new elbow or knee joint can be grown to replace on which , was so shattered that nil th fragments of bone composing it hsd to be removed the surgeoe's statement will aot be die Juted. A hotel waiter last year snf-ered snf-ered such aa accident. New Elbow Formed. Th sargeoa removed" all tb fragments frag-ments of th brokea elbow, prepared the ends f the bones of the upper aad forearm anil brought tbem together in proper position. In a few weeks an entire en-tire new elbow joint waa formed, with - tk. movement as perfect as before. Now th waiter balance th heaviest kisd of a tray upon that arm, which, save thst it is aa inch r two shorter, is for all purposes just th sam ss before be-fore th accident. Boa grafting ia a comparatively 4 aew surgical development which is quite as practical as akia grafting, alr hougb less talked about. The up to data aurgeoa no longer a see silver to renlsce a otinein7 bone. He takes the (Csatiaued ea page a.) , .... ' , ' TO DISCUSS NEW IDEAS (Continued from nsgo 1 ) seetios, required from soma other part of the patient ' anatomy or from any other available source. It is possible to take a bona from a dead ponoa aad graft it into a living body. A maa recently brought into a eity hospital had to hsv hi entire knee joiat removed re-moved because of tha disease affecting affect-ing it. Has Dead Man's Boos How. ' Another patient ia tha gam ward died that morning aad, with th eon-sent eon-sent of his relatives, tha kse joint was taken from th corpse and act in to replscs the on missing from the living man. Th bonei quickly united and withia three months tea man walked without limping. Th dead man 'a bona renewed th joiat so that it was aa good aa th oo ha bad lost. A man who by accident lost tha entire en-tire bona of bis sot had it replaced bv tha boae of on of hi fiagr. which waa carefully baadaged into place aatil it had grown fast to hi face. It waa then amputated from th haad. Hi ease was lass remarkable, however, than that of a atudent ia Heidelberg last winter, whoa noas was cut from hie face during a duel. A stray dog picked up th boa and had gnawed it almost out of recognition bef or it was rescued by a friend f th ia-jored ia-jored mas. Th dog, the maa and th noa war taken immediately to th koapHaL Tha dog wa carefully z-smtned z-smtned sad fossa to be ia healthful condition, so the bom bo had gnawsd waa baadaged onto tha place where it belonged. . A few week later th student stu-dent had a wU formed nasal organ. borig-a-v few scar to isdlrat it anusual xperienee. Transfosloa of Blood. . Each year brings some sew lareatioa la tne way of surgical instruments On of the latest and moat importaat which will be described at tha meeting meet-ing of th' Burgeoa' society is aa instrument for tha traaifuaion of blood with leaat wait and leaet paia to the donor and receptor. Thi Instrument, which wa lately tested in Columbia hospital in New York, eoniat of a pair of metal valves connected by two arm to flt one over tha other aad hollowed to permit tb passag o( blood. One i attacked to tha ope blood vessel of th donor and tha other to th vein of th roeeptor, and th flow is regulated In a aimpl but affective af-fective masaer. Th transfusion af blood, whiek a few year ago was a very rare operation, ia.aow in frequent fre-quent practice, a i also tha process of skin grafting. Tha Utter process has become so popular In public favor that aa organization kaa bean formed in New York known th Skin Grafting Graft-ing society, th member of which are fledged to giva a certain amoant of hair akin to supply th ad of th ufferer whenever a call ia mad for such a aaerifio. pig's Uda ea Man's race. Each member is examined by s phy-sieiaa phy-sieiaa efor joining, and only a par-ton par-ton in absolute healtuul condition can become a member. Tha latest development of skin grafting graft-ing in London, however, is grafting fiig" kin onto a human face, and it t ia successful tha members of th kin graftieg society will no doubt prefer pre-fer to keep their own cuticles intact. in-tact. It ia claimed that tha akin of a young pig closely resembles that of a maa. and seversl experiment seem to prove- thia astisfaatorily - The modern surgeon has discovered ' that few argaaa in tha body are absolutely ab-solutely necessary t human life. Stomach surgery is sow quit aa well understood aa boa setting. Tf ase-seesrr, ase-seesrr, th stomach Bar b entirely removed re-moved from th body without aerioa inconvenience to tha patient. Thar are now quit s number of stomach, leea men ia New York who pnrsu their daily avocation with ao wore seriou discomfort from th loes of their food rererttacl than a certain amount of restriction re-striction regarding, their diet. |