Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — Interesting Surgical Case. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Surgical Case.

The little girl, Jessie Lumly, upon whom the operation of gastrotomy.or cutting through the stomach was performed by Dr. Herff, last August, and who has since received all nourishment through the stomach, is gaining strength and flesh very rapidly. The child masticates the food given her, and, being unable to swallow, takes the chewed diet and inserts it into her stomach through the tube placed there by the surgeon. She has got so that she can digest any sort of food given her, and appears to be perfectly healthy and as cheerful and frisky as any of her playmates.— San Antonio ( Texas') Express.