THE SURGEON'S KNIFE FOR FAT PEOPLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 79

THE SURGEON'S KNIFE FOR FAT PEOPLE.

A STARTLING - OPERATION. Figures carfcwd to suit any requirement t - ■vrasp, waists, long hidden beneaibh svrcce/sive layers of adipose, excavated in all their pristine beauty from the enshrouding tissues, even as the beauties of Pompe'i .by the archsaolotgnst's ' spade j lines and' ' •' 6f -g^aCe rescued front the demon fat/; %very* wonian a Venais, every man an Apollo, land every swngecxn a sculptor ! 1 This is the latest item- of good news to the world' of fat people. The secret does not 1> in gymnastic* exercises, the awul ,phyßK»l culture, the walkings and: •contortions that afflict the seeker, after leanness like the tortures of •* iMa&i MfcKß^ Ages. A**y witb*«U <rf-3ba* « It does not lie in the diet that 'takes away from "him or her «d the teduhdant curves;- aili <tha* is worilh ©aikn^and afflicts >taetsoul like ptragaiUwy. E*t wihait you "- «w*ntf "it' 1 does , not lie in anti-fats or ;• 'any of tk&e catalogues .jof * mortifications especiaiUy^rescrihed for 'i!w plump. • ' It Jliee tn ithe ewngeon'-s fend'fe. Tb* ' surgeon! 6 f knife is the chisel of the prac- , ifciwjneir of t!he new art-. J lt wiflj carve -froni'tihe^look of fledb tfhe masterpiece as ,athe --aculfjfcor'« chisel -vnres from the "' .maaible the ideal. At least it sriffl when, the system is ' perfected — and that .von't take louig, cay some. At the present time the remoded\ing process is confined to the tarso, % but : , ,if is oawd to have been eminently success--full, and tbefre is not the faintest reason-, says the en^ueiaets, why it should not be'^ . .extended to cover from the top of head! to tfce-' tip of toe. Andrew Bazzle, 4001b, the heaviest man" in the Valley of Virginia, will go down in, the sa-ered writings of th*. fat as the fins* hero, the patriarch, the pioneer, througih w<hom • was Mazed* the way to leanness. " ' Andrew 'Bazzle is on the shady side of ' • AO'.U JQi*lMihole countryside haHed him as^itstfa^'test man. He was a lelebrity. - "~* Fto gewJniw tired of cairryintg all tthds .. , arqund," he confided to Mra ■ tB-jtMe. '"-^PH go down, to- Richmond and j , see wha^tihey can do for me." { ' '? CIX "1 J^ he Oni 7 &&& Gore.— He went. He confide-u bis weariness t • :*: * Sfl •eminent 1 ■Burgeon. ; The surgeon tQiougbt deefply "There ia ? a way." he said at lenigth. "But it is unusuaJ. It is being studied closely, but « •subjects have been lacking. It offers, j perhiaips, the only eoluition >f the fcut man's problem." linen the surgeon explained. There wasn't reittfy a bit .jf danger, he said. The knife of the chiropodist had more peril ' in it^bhaoithe blade of the 6ungeon in such a case. M Jfc is this ray," be said. "The fa*, that burdens you has no real place on \ha humen. form. It is, in a measure, a pa-ra- ~ site. It was not particularly contemplated" *s by Nature. The coneequsnee is that the deiposat', being foreign, may be removed ■■ with comparaidv^ ease. ,It ha« no nerves in it. Tfte, Mood veteefe are few a-nd weak, and no harm en ernsue from cutting through them. Wejvill simply carve out the aaipbee tissue, Temodel what is lefl deffcly, and — well, you wiiH nc* be 80 fat." " How fat wiir I be?"' asked Mr Bazat^ "Well, say a hundred pounds lees fat-,'* ansfft'exed the surgeon. They adjourned to St. Luke's Hospital . to talk k over with others. Mr Bazzla j becanie cowviiux>d. A« the matter had I been one of special study and research, a number of eminent surgeons were sent for to witness the opc'ration. They gave Mr Bazde ether. Then Bt Stuart M"Guk«, the opetrftting surgeon, I measured neatly two effipses, one on each ; side of the subject's ifodomen. They meaj sured eight inches by th*ee. Then tfte surgeon cut oarefuUy in alsnosb to the stomach wall, olean through the deposit of adipose tissue. Working quickly and delicately, Di M'Guire severed the case of iWn eHigsa asd liMdti out the mouse. I Tin's maa. weighed- nearly 50M>. Quiok*ly <fche aperture was cleaned. «uS . dressed. Then t«he Aan'sk the edge* oß'^ the ellipse <vas brought together and ' sowed. An exactly similar operation wa«. performed upon the opcoaie Bide of t)h» ; abdomen. —A Huasdred Pounds Ligflffcer.— - There was apparenibly very little shock. 1 Mr Bazzle awoke some time later not feeling ,bad at all. Be was all impatience tiH the time came foi tihe removal of the bandages. With trepidation he gazed at hiehwai£&. It is profeaWe thai he pinched himself *azj,4 iQarmui'edi doubt as to b*.

identity. For he had a waist line again and his girth was nearly normal. ' " wie operation s was entirely successful," Baidi jDr M'Grare. " Fully one hundred jpoupds were removed. It m<ay forzn fkgain, but it -will take very long if it floes. The operation was of very threat .value ac demonetratitwr certain possibiliDr H. Philip Sandorn, connected with eeveraT of the great hospitals in Philadel- ' jphia. was present at the operation. "What are the possibilities of removing the adopise tissue from an- part of the body?^ he was asked. "It has passed beyond the range of the poasiMe iato that of tibe actual," he answered. "The scars upon Bazzle wiil soon become only faintly noticeable. It has been demonstrated that this tissue can be removed from the body without ill effecti%it all being incurred. Both in New lYorkr and Philadelphia research into thris phase of surgery has been pushed to an astonishing degree. The Bazzle operation ,w,as remarkable in the amount of tissue I ' removed, and was extremely valuable because of tome otlher phases of it. "The operations and the research have •been -carried on very quietly. There are a. number of reasons for this. The sensitiveness of the patient is a great one .There have been more well-known people /than you imagine who have undergone the operation. I know personally of two (famous actresses who have lightened the (burden of the fledh in this manner. — Remodel the Whole Figure. — " I 'believe that the time i 6 not far distant when the^surgeoji will be able to Temodel the fat-covered form into perhaps more perfect lilies than existed before (the overlying process began. What has ibeen done with the abdomen can be done jupon most of the other parts of the body. jJTbe scarification is a popular objection, but as stGPgery stands at present this has been reduced to a minimus?. Maf*.* operations can pc performed without the trace of a Bear 'afterwards. Th« surgeon carves Hown the superfluous tissue. Massage and Nature will do tihe rest. "There ie still much to, be investigated 'and mradh to be learaed, but tho way has jpracticaUy been cleared. The terror of *ufc -wail soon be a thing of *be past, and £be rnargeon comfoine wiib om science the

art of the sculptor. I may cay that from Ids study dbere are no secrets of the Truman frame hidden from him, and that from this perfect knowledge of anatomy there is none 'better qualified to remodel what he can. Because of the deQicacy of Jiis work, the a&scJute necessity for steadiness and surenesd, 'he ie perforce an artist. He will become tihe fscuiprtor of the hiuinan "body, *he living flesh bis clay. ■ "This is not a dream, pleaee understand ; it is an actuality, already demonstrated. With the perfect knowledge will come "tihe perfect skill and tihe perfect art. There is not a part of the flesh, except the vital organs, that cannot be remodelled. That is a daring statement, I know, but I stand by it." — WeeMy Scotsman.