EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20556, 6 March 1935, Page 1

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Doctor Puts Child’s Stomach Right Side Up. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 4. A message from Fall River, Massachusetts, states that what is considered to be one of the most remarkable operations ever periormed in the United States occurred to-day when, in clinical exploration, the well-known surgeon and expert on hernia, Dr Philemon Truesdale, put into normal position the inverted stomach and other misplaced organs of a ten-year-old child, Alyce Jane M'Henry. The operation was attended by a large group of observing .physicians. Dr Truesdale, when the situation became apparent in all its details on the operating table, found it necessary to take the stomach, which was upside down and up under the child’s shoulder in the left chest cavity, with all but two feet of her intestines and the spleen and appendix, and place them in the normal position. Alyce’s case, which has attracted national attention, is considered grave and. although she stood the two-hour ordeal well, the physician declined to make a prognosis. Dr Truesdale said, I. don t want anybody to say that operation was a success, but I don’t want anyone to say it was the opposite.”