AMERICA'S SURGICAL MARVELS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 15 August 1913, Page 9

AMERICA'S SURGICAL MARVELS

i ' According to Dr. George Suffa, -who read 5 a paper before the American Homoeopathic, , Ophthalmologieal, Otological, and Laryngological Society, at Chicago, tucks are being 3 used a great deal this year as a remedy '. for the perplexing ailment known to the s laity as cross-eyes, an-d to men of science ' as convergent strabismus. The method of clearing the complicated vision oi these un- , fortunate people consists In taking a tuck in one of the muscles that control the • hall of the eye. For years eye doctors • have been using their little shears and snipping the muscle that makes the eye r misbehave. Then Dr. Sulla invented: the method of tightening up the muscle on the 3 other side, jnst as a man tightens his braces. ' Among the novel results of the year's ; work, as reported at the meeting, -was the • discovery by Dr. Harold Foster, of New i York, of a *nethod of removing tonsils with ~ the fingei "It is very simple," said he. : "I put the patient to sleep, and Chen reach s down and pick them like cherries—snap, and ; it's' all over. It takes about losec You . must have a strong grip." r Another speaker at Chicago lamented 3 that American allopaths hnd not accepted the challenge of the American homoeopaths 1 to compete in the treatment and cure of a selected assortment of .maladies, each . according to his special school, the effect of the test cases to be judged by a jury representing allopaths and homoeopaths . .equally. In no other way, it was suggested, : J cau a profitable decision be reached re- ■ • ■ garding the most successful methods of ; ! treatment, and In the absence of such a trial ,• > by jury the public would remain as mystl- ; 1 tied about their ailments and their cures " j as in the days when the practice of medicine ; J was regarded as the rankest empiricism. : "No wonder so many people are crying, 'A plague on both your houses,' and turning ' for help to electrics, mlnd-healers, Chris--3 tlan Scientists, New Thonghters, and other ] irregulars."