Mr. Kasson, has lately forwarded to his Government an interesting account of a remarkable surgical operation lately performed by Professor Billruth, of Vienna, which, wonderful to tell, consisted in the removal of a portion of the human stomach, involving nearly one-third of the organ—and, strange to say, the patient recovered—the only successful operation of the kind ever performed. - The disease for which this operation was performed was cancer of the stomach, attended with the following There is peculiar tlesceibable distress toms:—The appetite is quite poor.
the stomach, a feeling that has been described as a faint "all gone" sensation; a sticky slime collects about the teeth, especially in the morning, accompanied by an unpleasant taste. Food fails to satisfy this peculiar faint sensation; but, on the contrary, it appears to aggravate the feeling. The dyes are sunken, tinged with yellow 5 the hands and feet become cold and stid—a cold perspiration. The sufferers feel tired all the time, and sleep does not seem to give rest. After a time the patient becomes nervous and irritable, gloomy, his mind filled with evil forebodings. When rising suddenly from a recumbent position there is a dizziness, a whistling sensation, and he is obliged to grasp something firm to keep from falling. The bowels costive, the skin dry and hot at times; the blood becoming thick and stagnant, and does nob
spits up food soon after eating, sometimes circulate properly. After a time the patient in a sour and fermented con sometimes sweetish to the taste, Oftentimes there isa palpitation of the heart, and the Towards the last the patient is unable to tient fears he may have heart discase,
retain any food whatever, as the opening in the intestines becomes close, or nearly so. Although this disease is indeed alarm: ing, sufferers with the above-named symp: toms should not feel nervous, for nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand have no cancer, but simply dys+ persia, a discase easily removed if treated ina aay, x manner. The safest and best remedy for the disease is Seigel's Curative Syrup, a vegetable preparation sold by all chemists and medicine vendors throughout the world, and by the proprietors, A. J. White (Limited), 17, "Farringdon-road, London, B.C. This Syrup strikes at the very foundation of the disease, and drives it, root and branch, out of the system, St. Mary-street, Peterborough,
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