A SURGICAL MARVEL.
The 'Temps' has received details from a Strassburg correspondent qf the complete ablation of the stomach of a woman aged thirty-eight, and her no less complete recovery. The operation was performed bv Dr Boeckel, surgeon of the Civil Hospital of Strassburg. The woman operated upon had a cancer in the stomach. It grew out of an ulcer of long standing. All the other organs /were healthy. The wound caused by the scalpel healed without suppuration or ulterior fistula, and in twenty-three'days the patient was dismissed as cured. . Her digestion has not suffered, but it is not said what she digests. Without a stomach the-diges-tion of meat is impossible. This is the first time a cancer in the stomach has, been cured by the complete ablafion of that orgßii.7
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Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 1
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131A SURGICAL MARVEL. Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 1
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