A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1652, 13 January 1886, Page 3

A FATAL MISTAKE IN AMERICA.

The Cleveland (Ohio, W.9-A) Prut, of Feb. 28, 1888, puhli*hpi an •'•C>u t of a fatal enrgtea' operation which ba» oauMd a great aramotinn among medic 1 men throughout the whole country, Dr. Thaw, the most eminent tnrg«on in Clf veland pronouncing if seanfalont. I* ipnearsthiit a Mr». Kin had been Miffering for many yean with -ome diMese of the stomach whjeii had r*»Med the treatment of all the phytiean» in attendance. The disease commenced with a slight deran.-e---itiwit o f the dig-sti™. wi'h »pw app tite, followed by a peculiar i-d nc-bable di*tres« in iht rtomaeh, a feelin«tha« has been de-eribed •a a feint " aM gone" *en*ation, a «ncky slime collecting about the f§etli, causing a dwagreeaM« rarfe, etpeHally in the inornin«. Thi* «j"a»a»ion wj§ not removed hy food but on the contrary, it w« incrfawd. The cy et then ftftcame tinired with yellow, and were ranlceii After awhile the hand* and feet became cold and •♦ic%y-a ©old pewpimtion. Fh-re w«. • «H>»tant iire< and »»'»B"id feeling. Then followed a dre«H f »l ner»oa-ne§#, with gloomy foreboding*. When riiing a Idenly there «a«ieadicsy feeling HI- wrwa Af^ra lime the howe'» became eo»ri»e so that it w«i diflkaH to prrtco^e a mwuwni without a cathartic. Bo<w follow* 1 a di-poition to»p*t up the •«od after eating, sometimea in a aour fermented condition. All thi« derangement ««iaed h terrible palpitation of the heart, fti mh» male the bre .thing diffl>-u't. Fiiialh , »he patient was nnaMe to retain any food what* itf, ««hI 'here wa« constant pnin in the abdomen. All pre»eribed remedies faiHng to ciT» relief a eonsnltntion wa« heij, when it wu derided that the orient had * oaucer in the etomach, und, in order to we the patjent't life an operation was justifiable. Aooordinsfly on Feb. 28, 1888, the operation wat performed by D"" Vance, in the pren-nce of Dr. Tuckerman, Dr. Per Her. I>r. Anra. Dr. Gordon, Dr. Lapoee. and Dr. Halliwell of the Police Board. The operation con«ited in laying open the, trot? 0 ( the abdomen and exposing the ttomach bowel*. li»er, and puncreai* When thi« bad been don-, an elimination of tU« orga*ie wtt ma^e, but, to the ho«-r r and dismay of the doßtori. there wni «o ct'tcer to he found. The patient did not hare a cancer. When tmi late, the medical men differed that there bad been a terrible mi»t«ke« They tewed ihe t>arti together and drftsed the wound rhat they had made, hot the poor woman tank from nhaottton and died in ■ few ho«w. Bow tad it mult be for the husbaad of th-a poor woman to know that hit wi'e died irom th« «ffecrof avargieal operation that ought, never to hare been performed. If thie woman bad taken the proper remedy f«>r d>«pep»ia (for tbte w what the riieeam really w«»). she would bare been living to«day. 8 i?el*a l'ur*ti»e Byrup. a remedy made ejpretsU fur dyipep«i<i or indigestion, has r«*»nred many »ueh eases to prefect health a«ter all other kinds of treatment have failed. The evidence of its efieacy in earing the elm* of easeitstoo voiaminou* to be published here, bu< those who read the pub ished evidence in favour of this <ty«re*tic remedy do not que»tion its convincing nature ; aud tlie article Im art Mterf ire sale. Bold by all Chetnuts and Medicine Vendnrs tbrouirhont the world, and by the proprietors, A. J. Whtr^, Limited, 17, Varringdon road, London. K 0.