AN ASTOUNDING EXPERIMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 11, 12 July 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN ASTOUNDING EXPERIMENT.

Two Patis doctors have just performed the curious surgical operation which consists of changing a fat man into a lean one. This operation which goes by the appropriate name of degraissage, was entirely successful, and the patient experimented upon, who was formerly a man of unwieldy proportions, is now dancing about in the best of spirits and in clothes several times too large for him. M. Hirognelle, the fat man, is a medical student, residing in the Latin Quartier, "M. Hirognelle decided that any treatment would be better than bo weighed 'down into his grave nuder his load of degenerate fat. lv fact he decided to uudergo anything ior the sake of relief, and so it was arranged that Dr. Mavx, who was to bo assisted by Demars, should proceed to out away the superfluous fat. Accordingly, spine days ago, all being made ready, M. Hirognelle was duly stretched upon his back, and chloroform administered. The doctors for the firßt operation chose the abdomen, where the accumulation of adipose matter had formed an enormous flabby fold. Two parallel cuts were made about 40 centimetres in length, and about 15 centimetres apart. Then, the skiu being laid back, the operators proceeded to excavate the mass of fat. This being successfully accomplished, the wounds were sewn up and dressed,, and the patient allowed to come to himself, declared he had suffered nothing. His first words were : " I am hungry." The doctors propose to begin again at other parts of M. Hirognelle's body, and will continue the process until the degraissage is complete.