Vital Organs Cut from Body to Work Life Saving Miracles


Recent Operations of a Sensational Nature Are Described for You in This Article, Fifth in Our Series Dealing with Modern Surgery
By Frederic Damrau, M. D.
LIFE-SAVING by surgery, the most dramatic phase of modern medicine, now includes the removal of whole organs from the human body. This is one of the most recent daring advances in the technique of the operating room.
Miracles of this kind, performed again and again, have proved you can live without a stomach, with one of your lungs entirely removed, with a kidney gone, and even with part of your brain taken away by the surgeon's knife!
At the famous Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., two years ago, a man nearly seventy years old, had his entire stomach removed. Afterwards, he could eat anything he could before and he could digest it better.