Show new ew operation for paralysis american surgeons elated over discovery of australian scientists chicago one of medical sciences newest arid most significant discoveries a surgical remedy expected to cure forms of spastic paralysis orlet noting in on an affection of the sympathetic nerve will be presented for the fhe first time in this country in chicago next october when dr john hunter and dr N D boyle of sydney australia come to the city to explain their operation it consists in severing tho the sympathetic nerve connection involved plans tor for the doctors chicago stay preliminary to their appearance in now new york before the clinic congress were announced by dr franklin 11 II martin director general of the american college of surgeons and tile the man responsible for their local visit dr mayo impressed dr martin and dr will mayo of rochester minn returned recently from n i three months tour of australia and new zealand while in sydney acy ehdy visited the famous clinics of dr hunter Sl unter tile the twenty soven year old scientist find and dr r koyle oyle thirty five the surgeon they investigated the al lebed curo cure of spastic paralysis and felt elt sufficiently confident of its results to invite its two discoverers to america tho the operation as explained by dr martin Is simple it may be per formed the surgeon predicted by any reputable surgeon burgeon who has haa studied tho the work of the australian doctors spastic pnra paralysis lysis and disease disease variants of palsy ore are diseases eases affecting the voluntary muscles of tho the extremities and are accompanied by a rigidity or overtone of these muscles this results in the loss of control of tile the extremities I 1 experiments on animals dr hunter working on the theory that the sympathetic nerve tones the muscles experimented to prove conversely ver sely that an overtone of muscle might be corrected by dissociation from the sympathetic herve he be conducted a series of painstaking experiments on animals animal 9 large guinea pigs and cerebrated goats I 1 then dr royle noyle the surgeon applied the scientists theory and cut the sympathetic nerve in affected animals the results were satisfactory according to the data given dr mayo and dr martin after further experimentation on animals dr royle ventured operations on human paralytic victims but 11 he 0 chose dr martin explained persons so badly afflicted that they could not have been made worse the results again were satisfactory and ns the last step in the process groces the surgeon severed the nerve in patients less seriously invalided Invalid ed by spastic paralysis in these cases too as aa evidenced evidence dby by the de patients testimony to the american doctors the rigidity the overtone of the muscles disappeared more afore than one patient throw threw away hla his cn crutches itches and began to walk chicago tribune |