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Show Performs Operation on Heart Cleveland Doctor Makes History Medical history was made at Lakeside hospital, Cleveland, with the performance of the first operation opera-tion in the history of the world for the relief of angina pectoris, a heart ailment which in the past has been regarded as Incurable and eventually even-tually fatal. The operation was performed by Dr. Claude S. Beck, a surgeon at Lakeside hospital. It may mean as much to the world as the discovery of a cure for cancer. Other physicians have refuted the statement that Beck was the first to perform an operation of this kind, r; f, - ' DR. CLAUDE S. BECK claiming that such a case was reported re-ported by Dr. Jonnesco, a French surgeon, In 1020. Jonnesco is reported re-ported to have relieved the pain of angina pectoris by resecting the cervical sympathetic nerve chain and the first thoracic ganglion. Nevertheless, Doctor Beck is receiving re-ceiving the plaudits of medical men all over the country for his brilliant success. |