A man gets along very well without a stomach. The fact has been demonstrated by a number of operations during the past few years, when diseased stomachs have been removed to save the lives of suffering patients. The stomach, after all, is not an essential factor in nutrition. It receives foods and prepares them for the assimilative processes carried on in the intestines. After it lias been taken out, the patient naturally denies himself certain kinds of food, hut that necessity is bettor than death from cancer. And what a blessing it is the dyspeptic to escaps his pangs! The latest successful operation of gastrectomy on record i 3 the case of a Chicago gardener whose stomach was removed last spring. His weight was then 961 b, now it ia 1601 b.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 230, 7 October 1901, Page 2
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