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After the first operation, daughter Anna broke hospital rules and spent the night at her father's bedside, thus beginning a 16-year vigil during which, often for months at a time, she was always within call. Freud himself was not told that examination of the removed tissues revealed cancer, although more surgery was soon necessary for "an unmistakably malignant ulcer in the hard palate which invaded ... the upper part of the lower jaw and even the cheek." First, a carotid artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed...
...patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...
Medical History. Much of the third and final volume of Analyst Jones's painstakingly researched, lovingly written biography* is taken up with an extraordinary account of Freud's illness and its effects on his last years. The effects, never before described in such detail, were painful, profound and sometimes bizarre...
...shut off the mouth from the nasal cavity and make speech and eating possible, Freud had to wear a "huge prosthesis, a sort of magnified denture or obturator.'' This instrument, says Jones, was a horror that Freud and family nicknamed "the monster." It was painful and difficult to get in or out. In one nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When...
Exhaustive Author Jones counts no fewer than 33 operations (plus endless Xray, radium and diathermy treatments) over the next 16 years. One of the more unusual operations: Freud had himself sterilized (by tying off the major sperm ducts) on the chance that a changed hormone production might retard the growth of the cancer. There is no evidence that it had any such effect...