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Show Patient Watches Doctors Remove Ribs And Operate Upon Heart By OTTO THOM1 Pint Man Operated on i ndcr Influence Influ-ence of "Nerve Block, ' tJlC New Vuesthesia, Which Ueadeiu Oulj Local Ports "i tin Bod) CHICAGO, May 29 I had been discharged dis-charged from tlu navy aa u hop Isaa Invalid because of an abscess on the left lung. On three previous occasions I had undergone operations with ether, none of which could be completed, because, of the other's effects Then Dr. Nelson H Jxwiy took m under his care and soon after I was placed on an operating table at the Illinois Masonic hospital in Chicago.! Nerve block' anesthesia was adnun- Iside around the region of the lung ! l-iered t me and soon my entire left seemed to have gone to sleep. My mind was dear though, and I laughed and joked v.nb the nurses I while 1 watched the doctor remove I seven of my rlb while I lay In a sort of half sitting position. Then with his knife the doctor wanked into my heart, so It seemed. opening all th- wall around ihfl abscess it was tun to watch my heart throb. 1 evon reached over and touched It Throughout all the operation I felt no pain. In fact it was amusing to watch my j Internal organs function No fne can ever tell me that I have no heart. 1 know 1 have.. i have gained -10 pounds since my ! it was an open secret even to my- ! self. j Nerve block, tho doctor told mo, Is like a local shutdown on a great clec-I clec-I trlqal circuit. V.ais ago when there was a break In the line, engineers had to close tho v. holt power plant. Now they merely plug out tho affect' af-fect' I part and the rest of the mech-, anlsm continues to function 8o surgenns have perfected a meth-( I od of shutting off the nerve supply for an affected part of the body. In this blocked area there Is nO Sensation, and any repair can be made, 'without pain or discomfort, while the 1 rent of the body is functioning as I usual. ' |