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Since William Clark (Philadelphia) perfected surgery with the clean-burning electric knife and needle, many surgeons are now using the electric cautery in preference to what Howard Atwood Kelly (Johns Hopkins) in Cancer calls "knife & fork" surgery. The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch...
Electro-Surgery, the use of a cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...
...England's rule is obviously preferable. In the north are the Mohammedans sure of a paradise gained across the bodies of dead infidels. Against them, at the present time at least, England's defense is imperative. Practically every great plague that has scourged Europe originated in India; and the scalpel and the microscope of western science would still be a definite loss. The weakness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his rejection of all western influence, just as the weakness of the West lies in its callousness to Eastern culture...
Peter Dombkiewicz stood in the prisoner's box of a Buffalo court. Within arm's reach of the box stood David Glickstein, jeweler, who accused the defendant of stealing $9,000 of his merchandise. Suddenly Prisoner Dombkiewicz flipped out a surgeon's scalpel, leaned out of his box, slit the Glickstein throat. Said he vengefully: "That's how I treat squealers." On the bench Judge Alonzo G. Hinkley was outraged. Glickstein, not seriously injured, had his throat bandaged at a hospital, returned to court in time to hear the Buffalo jury say: "Guilty...
...only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their...