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Show He Felt Sheepish.' An operation was performed recently by a local surgeon. on a farmer living near Norristown,. and. the peculiar methods pursued. will go " down on record rec-ord as a marvel of science, if the tiller of the soil should get perfectly hale again. . ' The man had been suffering from cancer of the stomach, for many years and considered his case, nopeiess, until he. conferred 'avf.th'- .tto&Uurieen. 'Hvho prohiised that'an operation might Vure him. Accordingly-it was -agreed to perform it at the farmer's home the next day. The sufferer was laid upon a table side by side with a healthy Sheep. The stomach of each was cut open. and the part affected by cancer transferred to the sheep in exchange for a good slice ! of ' its Intestines. Both patients were j sewed up and soon revived from the effects ef-fects of 'the. ariaesthe'tic used-during-the 1 extraordinary operation. The Sheep was turned loose and its master put to bed. ! For a week the' farmer was nourished 1 on goat's milk-'and 'after ten days was I allowed to sit up in a chair, as every- j thing was progressing favorably. 1 Today the proud surgeon received a j letter from his patient stating that the j sheep was still alive and , feeding as 1 usual, and that the only ill effects pro- duced. uprm himself by the exchange is an insatiable "hankering after grass." |