Show surgeons operate on brain while patient Is conscious removing tumor to save life growth four by two inca and three quarter quarters of an inch dep deep taken out in two to houra hours with sick man C arram g on conversation YORK march 27 abat is c oafa re dd perhaps the moat most romark able case ot of brain surgery ever performed the removal of au an enormous tumor from froni the brain while the patient waa was completely was pronounced a success monday by of both beth israel heIl hospital tal whore where it took place harry A browa brown a furniture man of newark N J 49 years yeam old the patient Is now virtually teady ready to so go back to work just oae one mauth after abe knife catered entered the bead head casa is I 1 genuine romance of surgery tho the case Is a romaneo of surgery Bur gery one of the picturesque events in medicine that will soon find its it way into professional journals jour nale the world bovair it Is just another triumph of tho the surgeons art hep brown Is to thanking his lucky star the he be can take up his business activities where he left thorn them off more than a year ago for many months he has suffered from irom terrific headaches with unbearable ablo pressure over both eye eyes dr louis J frank superintendent said ho he could not find out what was tho matter with him his right side became para lyzen his memory left him he ile was subject to epileptic fits partial coma came on and at times ho he had change of personality dr prank franc aalde MX mil browns wife and children were reconciled to his approaching death they were assured that his chances for life were mighty slim his grave was purchased then 85 a a last resort bo he camo came to the hospital and wo we diagnosed his trouble as tumor of the brain ailment Affine nt ie Is nearly always palal the doctors decided that an operation could save him though such an ailment as this ibis Is practically alway waya fatal xray X ray photos gave hope of success brown was consulted and con sontee fully realizing the ordeal through which ba he was top aee he was wo a drowning maa o 0 arar grasping aing at a straw el due to the gravity of tho the patients condition dr frank wont ont on to say it was ay a general unaesthetic anaesthetic an so oaly only cocaine was used locally the process of the operation waa was altus the wan was cut and small hole holes were bored into the skull over the infected part parl those hole holes wore were connected by a knife and a part of the skull wa was rent removed oved then tho du roa ma or lining of tha baalu br alu wua WAS penetrated the tumor which was of a beginning nature and independent of the brain itself waa was lifted out the tumor wag was four inches long two in wide and throe three foutts or an inch thick one of tho largest on record rational dialog with patient kept up and all during this delicate dolt cato process two bourn long said dr frank brown lay une trapped on the tho operating table tabled knowing ey everything bry thing that waa was going on at times he complained of the pain then tho the surgeon dr ac K winfield noy injected ejected a bit more cocaine where the hurt was and told tha the th a patient he wa waa a through with that pec lection tion brown seemed comforted tirone was a regular conversation going on at all time a rati rational dialog abo minute tho the tumor was removed brown said hia his boad headache acho was gone and day by day ho he grew better his ilia memory returned the dual personality so did the caraly isla 1 and the epilepsy and tuesday brown Is whole mind and body and in tho the stages of recuperation before reentering business ho he lives as aaa monument to medical progress |