A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 16491, 6 January 1886, Page 4

A FATAL MISTAKE IN AM ERIC A.

The Clerelaid (Ohio, W.S.A) Press. o> F.'h. 23, /883, puoli<h< • nn a. cut of n tatal. ni't»fil 01 eraiiou whi"h has caused a grertl oobiom tion imonj medic 1 men throughout <h» wnnh' run :trr. Dr. Thivi»r, the inoit m.inent surgeon in CUvelund prononncin? il »ani)»li'ii». It "pp.ar» tlint h Mrs. Kin had been differing for manr yea* wiih »ome ('idpsw oi 1 tin stomach whic'i had r. *i»»f d the 'rentment of a'l the plitt-icans in attendance. The disea** commerced with a (light derange «- ent o' (he dieistioM, with n p>or appetite, !• ilow*«d hy a pernlMr i-de-p-baWe dipfreM in th? » f.'plinnthHt h»« heen de*eribed mll <»int "«;l gone '#< n^nti^p, n *ii*-ky slime C'llcfinp übout the S^ih, cau'ing afltfiigree- •> In tasie, e»pe*iallc in the moi-ning. Thi« >< p**»ion w»» not removed hy food, but on tl>e contrary, it w»s incrch^ed. The eye# then I orntne tinned with yel!i w, and w<iie »u»ken. A'ter S'vhnV ill- Imnds und feet benime old »ud *tiiky—a coJd p rvpimtion. there wa« a roitstaot lited and ls>>euid feeling. Then followed adresl'ul nertou'ne**, with gloomy foreboding*. When rising uddenly there cubic a disiy feeing lik^ VrrHco. After 0 time the boweN hpoame costive so that it w.ii> difiscul* to preen c a movment without a cathartic. Boi>n fo'lo«»l a di»i>'s fion to spit tip tbe '»od sf>< r eHlinjj, sometimes it s Mur fcrmei ted rondi'i'>n. All this derangement caused >• terrihle piJpitntion of the hmrt. *■> us to mske the hre tthing diSl< u<t. Finalli, ihe patient w-s unahle 'o reta a any food whatevfF, and 'here wm con^'nnr pain in the shHomen. All prff>cribed r>mediM failing to give relief a C'.reuliHtion wa» held, when it wm decided thai the imtient hud n cancer in the stomach, »nd, in c-der to pave the patient's life an operation was justifiable Accordingly on F"h. 22,1883,1 h? operation was performed by Dr« Var.fe, in the presence of Dr. Tuekeri»»an, Dr. Perrier: Dr. A<p*». Pr. Gordon, Dr. Lapuer, snd D-. Hulliwell of th«- Police Board. The oprrnlion con.'tf-ted in Inying open the, cavity 0' the »h.'om>*n and <xpn#ing the *toip- j •eh bowels, liver, »r.d ptmcrpi »• Wber ihlK | had been donr, an pimunattoa of the organ* wm ma-'e, hut, to the hom.r and dsmay 0' the doctors, there w. sno cancr to h<> found. 7he putient d'd not huve a cancer. When too late, the medu-nl men discovered that there had ben s terrible ißi*t«ke' Thr-y sewed the lait* lojjeilipr and dxssed llie wound tha* thpy hurl made,' o 1 the poor woman sank 'rom exhaustion ai.d dii-d in » few lion^. How sad it m i<st he for the It us hand of thspoor woman to know flint his wi c died from tin fffre'* of a surgical operation that ought never to have b?en performed. If thin woman hf<d taken the proper remedy for dyspepsia (f >r this is what the dianase really wa«). she w. u!d bate been living to-day. Si ijjel's furati»e Syrup, a remedy made exprrsslf fir dyspep>i> or indtgf snon, hff* rcstrrpd mary sut-h cbks • o prefect heullh Vter all other kinds of treatment hare failed. The evideno* ol iv ifflcnry in curing th's dug* of ci S3* is to" vo)uminou« to be puM shed here, but thos. who read tl c pub ished evidence in favour o' this riysi epiie rt-medy do not question it* coiiTincitg nature; and the article las an eitei live (■*)». fold by all Cheini-ls and llpriifine Vendors ihrouithout tbe world, and by the prof,ri tor*. A. J. WluV, Limited, 17, Jit'rii.^iJuu road, L^i.dou. K C.