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Dr. Young is most widely known for an operation commonly used for relieving prostate trouble, which afflicts one out of every five middle-aged men. He makes an incision in front of the anus and "shells out" the enlarged lobes of the prostate. His punch operation started the removal of...
Surgical correction of bosom sag involves lifting the breast, reattaching it firmly to the pectoral muscle by means of absorbable sutures, transplanting the nipple and areola (pigmented circle) to their esthetically proper site on the new formation. The incision leaves an inconspicuous scar, and since it is made downward from...
Youngish, thick-featured Dr. Shorell has performed two of Edna Wallace Hopper's three face-liftings, has operated on a score of movie faces. His is one of the most lucrative branches of surgery. He makes one incision, in front of the ear, one under and behind it, sometimes...
One Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate...
"I felt them wheel me under the lamp," he wrote. "I felt a succession of little pricks in a wide circle ... on my head. Then . . . one long horizontal incision at the back of my neck. This did not hurt me either. I felt soft gestures, as if my flesh were...