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Show OPERATES M WITHSUCCESsi Johns Hopkins Doctor Solves Problem That Has Baffled Men of Science BY P-. W ITERS N. E. A. St.iff Correspondent BALTIMORE. Mil Dr Walter E. Dandy young surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hop-kins Hospital, has planted the flap of' merirnn achievement In the center i of the hunfan br.nn' The brain, center of hunmn ac- rivity and tho most delicate and sensitive sen-sitive organ of the body, has pro-1 rented science with the most baffling problems in tho past. Ordinary brain operations h?e been made simple but I to reach the vory center of the mas. the Third Ventfii le. without killing the patient, was Impossible until Dr Dandy, after three years' experiment Ion lower animals monkeys mostly 1 found the way I What dos It mean' REMOVAL OR CURE It means that epileptics can be cured and that many an insane man ran be brought back from the asylum It means that pa'"ilytlcs can bf- given the UBO. of their bodies These Ills ore often the cause of brain tumors or "iplita ' Dr. Dand) lays open the way for their removal, or cure. He has successfully operated upon the brains of men and recently removed re-moved a tumor from the Third Ventricle Ven-tricle which restored the speech of a dumb man The operation Is made In three I stages, o that the patient will not he killed b the sudden shock of Kyin? bare the twists and turn of hi' "gray matter." SKIM IS OPKXED First the skull must bo opened. The bono is bored through with "trepin-Ing" "trepin-Ing" Instruments and then th "water" In which tht brain rests, is withdrawn to release the pressure that might damage the brain It Is :i delicate job to tie or "llgate" the blood VCSSalS to prevent hemorrhage or undo-' bleeding. bleed-ing. The second stage finds the surgeon's knife through the "corpus eallosum" or "large body" which connects the two parts of the brain. That In Itself ls a difficult task The third and final operation Is the j exposing of the Third Ventricle and the removal of the obstructlnc tumor ROLES BORED IN SKULL The great obstacle to the operation In the past was the treatment of tne brain, accustomed to rest In lta fluid, when that fluid was withdrawn. The slightest damage resulted In paralysis i or death of the patient. Dr Dandy solved the problem ry I boring one or more holes in the base I of the skull through which purified air Is pumped Into the brain channel.). I 1 |