CURES BY CAUTERY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 2

CURES BY CAUTERY

•'R ACK TO A RISTOTI.F," TiF.m.IN, ST'iN'.F.OX'F PL AX • 1 ( k to Arislotic” is 1 1!•* astounding lesson proelnimed by I'rolessor Bier, 111 ad Ilf 11 1 c* surgical el ill I e oi Berlin l iiiver.siiv. lo ;i meeting ~i tin* .Modiia I Association of Berlin. "What medicine will not eine." taught (lie Slagiritc. ‘ tin- knife will cure. What the knife will not (life life will cure. Tin* famous surgeon elaiuis to have pioveil the tfiuh of this principle. ami he predicts that the "obsolete” cauterising iron will now In* limited out from the lumber foont of medieine and restored to its antique position as one of our chief healing agencies. In his lecture ""Professor Bier dealt wifn nearlv 500 septic eases which down to tin* end of last year were treated in his i linie hv the revived method of burning down, and in nearly all ot which most favourable results were obtained. They included many eases of aggravated inflammation <*f the sinovial slieaths and mem lira nets ol the heart. <)f twelve patients suffering from the lnsi-nayied affection who had been given tip as hopeless Try lending specialists no fewer than seven" were saved hv a red-hot iron. Tlie use of thefr limbs was restored to victims of suppurating joints, whose only 'hope was believed to he amputation. |>v ihe thermocautery with which the treatment is carried out it is I’retessor piici s object os set up inlTarmnation and i •• .'er.

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