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Show EFFECT OF THE OPERATION. Part of Nature of Sheep Grafted on Farmer. An operation was performed recently re-cently by a local surgeon on a farmer living near Norristown, says the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Telegraph, 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 hopeless, until un-til he conferred with the surgeon, who promised that an operation might cure 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 was transferred trans-ferred to the sheep in exchange for a good slice of its intestines. Both patients were sewed up and soon revived re-vived from the effects of the anesthetic anesthet-ic used during the extraordinary operation. oper-ation. The sheep was turned loose and its master nut to bed. For a week the farmer was nourished on goat's milk, and after ten days was allowed to sit up in a chair, as everything was progressing favorably. To-day the proud surgeon received a letter from his patient stating that the sheep was still alive and feeding as usual, and that the only ill effects produced "upon himself by the exchange ex-change is an insatiable "hankering after grass." |