| Show performs operation on heart cleveland doctor makes history medical history was made at lakeside hospital cleveland with the performance for mance of the first operation in the history of the world for the relief of angina pectorals ls a heart ailment which in the past has been regarded as incurable and eventually fatal the operation was performed by dr claude 8 beek beck a surgeon at Lake lakeside Lakes sid ld hospital it may mean as much to the world as the discovery of a cure for cancer other physicians have refuted the statement tat ement that beek beck was the first to perform an operation of this kind ax n V DR CLAUDE S BECK claiming that such a case was reported by dr Jon nesco a french surgeon in 1920 Jon nesco Is reported to have rell relieved eved the pain of angina pectorals ls by rejecting ing the cervical sympathetic nerve chain and the first thoracic ganglion nevertheless doctor beek beck Is receiving the plaudits pl audits of medical men all over the country for his brilliant success |
