WIZARDS OF SURGERY.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2026, 16 September 1913, Page 6

WIZARDS OF SURGERY.

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS OJh' THE MAYO BROTHERS IN AMERICA. (Daily News Correspondent). New York, August 3. Dr. William J. Mayo, who arrives n England on the Kronpriuz VVilhelm to-morrow for the Medical Congress at the Albert Hall and who has jast been electa! Honorary Fellosv of the Royal College of Stir geoiis is one of tre lamous Mayo brothers w*;<' are known through out this continent as the "wizards of American surgery." T«eir l ospital in Roc'ester—not Roc! ester, New York, where the kodaks are made, but Rochester in far away Minuesota—is one of the most admirably equipped iusti . tutions on either si e the Atlantic. Jn tnis hospital, St. Mary'rf, brothers have performed 35,000 operations in the last :lf> years. Their skill is almost uucauny In one year, out of 7,177 surgical cases only 92 were fatal, aud in 190y, out of 1,325 operations for api eudicitis, there were foor ■ eat' s, a record which Sir Freder- j ick Treves himself iniglit have envied. I

••William J." generally operates I from the thro'it down, an < his j brother, "d aides H," from the i float up. T* e pair are i ften called j the surgeons' surgeons, because so : many surgeons come to them for treatment An averp.gc of fifty foreign specialists watch their work As for the patientp, social position makes no difference The Mayo fees to t ose who can afford them are enormous, bat the hrot ers have performed countless operations on the poor lor nothing.