Show HEROIC TREATMENT or OF all the horrible ignant and deadly diseases that afflict fallen humanity there is perhaps not one in all the black catalogue more to be dreaded than that of cancer its encroachment on the citadel of life after having one once fairly gained a foothold on the out works seem to defy all the efforts of the cohorts it is true that it may be checked temporarily in its career of death but the repulse is but for a time and the horrid monster gradually but surely extending its ramifications and gathering gath erins greater determination from the apparent defeat makes another and stronger attack and if necessary wraps wrap sits its deadly cords around the vitals scowl slowly sapping the very fountain of life until until sagging t the e citadel capitulates and the victim after mouths or years of living death sinks into the inevitable tomb it is true that individuals here and there claim that they can cure cancer but at the same time it is a most significant fact I 1 that notwithstanding these cla imsand all the known science and efforts of the medical fraternity some of the most illustrious figures in the history of the world have fallen untimely victims to the deadly encroachment of this insatiable monster the great napoleon general U S arant grant and many others that might be mentioned being among the nu number niber when the british army gets into a tight place before a formidable enemy the usual usual resort to is to charge bayonets A lar feeling seems to actuate our most eminent surgeons when the citadel of life is threatened by an attack of malignant cancer there is at once manifest in their camp the utmost activity they seem to fully realize the extent of the great danger and at once throw physic to the dogs and cast the ordinary pills and powders to the four winds while they grasp their knives and strip for the coming conflict with an enemy that seldom surrenders and aad that can only be checked in his advances by y t the e use 0 of co cold at steel e when qu this beco becomes es necessary necess arx arvit it is in fedt medical I 1 parlance termed heroic treatment the latest and one of the boldest efforts in this line of treatment is that applied in the case of a shoemaker of weymouth massachusetts afflicted with a caneer cancer lir in the stomach in the opinion of dr warren there was only one thin thing z to do he i e to resort to the knife the patient t t being first placed under the influence of ether dr warren made an incision over thi the seat of the disease large enough to enable him to extract the stomach entire on examination it was found that the cancer affected nearly the whole of buo ouo oo 00 side of the wall it being manifestly impossible to remove so much of it k at one operation and at the same tim oe effectually close the extent of 0 opening enin that would be necessary the boctor n aided to adopt a course of ti treatment reat menfi entirely novel in such cases he sewed a seam directly across the stomach sep separating separation aratin the healthy from the diseased part and 5 making two sacks or bags Ini instead tead of one the stomach was then replaced and the abdomen temporarily closed in a few days when the seam has grown into a natural wall of separation ti ibm abdomen will be again opened an 4 IW C d part will be cut off tiler t bore the operation without apparent ap pp ant bad effects and the operation in the end is expected to be fully successful and the cure radical |