Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-26 | Page 8 | Visiting Physicians See Novel Operations

VISITING PHYSICIANS SEE NOVEl OPERATIONS An extraordinary operation of ot transplanting trans trans- planting a a. bone from one part of ot a amans aman's tItans mans body to another was performed on Jeff Gordon 50 years old of ot Howe Ida yesterday morning at Holy Cross hospital by Dr Andrew J J. J Hosmer of ot Salt Lake More than a hundred mem mom hers bers rs of tho the Utah State Medical l asso asso- elation who have o been in Salt Lake this week attending the nineteenth annual annual annual an an- nual meeting of their organization were present when tho the operation took place After tho the operation Dr Hosmer said lie be had bad removed a inch four-inch bone from Gordons Gordon's right le leg and transplanted it to tho the left leg les at the seat eat of ot an old fracture While this method has been in practice lice tice among sur surgeons eons for tor some time Dr Hosmer said it is comparatively new to man many patients in this part parl of ot the country I 1 adopted this m method thod several lic years Jears ago and have havo found it very r effective e for healing fractures It takes the place of plates that were formerly used b by most surgeons t i Dr A. A M. M Morton lorton of San Francisco who read a scientific paper before the members of oC th tho medical association I at their meeting Wednesday performed operations In three abdom abdominal cases at atthe atthe atthe the county hospital yesterday In each case local anesthesia was us used cd Instead of ot chloroform or ether Dr Morton stated to the sur surgeons eons present that he had performed operations with the local anesthesia without a single le fatality The demonstrations by Drs Dra Hosmer and Morton brought to a close the nineteenth annual meeting of ot the state medical association which started Tues Tues- Tues Tues-I da day