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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 Norrlstown, says tho Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Telegraph, and the peculiar methods pursued will go down on record rec-ord as a marvel of sclonco. If the tiller ot tho soil should get perfectly halo again. The man had been suffering from cancer of the stomach for many years, and considered his case hopeloss, until un-til ho conferred with the surgeon, who promised that an operation might euro him. Accordingly It was agreed to perform It at tho farmer's homo tho next day. The sufferer was laid upon a table side by side with a healthy sheep. The Btomach of each was cut open, and tho part affected by cancer was transferred trans-ferred to the sheep In exchange for a good slice ot Its tntostlnos. Both patients wero sewed up and soon revived re-vived from the effects of the anesthetic anesthet-ic used during tho extraordinary operation. oper-ation. Tho sheep was turned loose and its master put to bed. For a week tho 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 tho proud surgeon recolved a letter from his patient stating that tho sheep was still alive and feodlng as usual, and that the only HI effects produced upon hlmsolf by the ex-chango ex-chango Is an Insatiablo "hankering after grass." |