Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — A Triumph for Surgery. [ARTICLE]

A Triumph for Surgery.

Anotl.or triumph for the science of surgery is recorded in the report of a remarkable operation performed at a sanitarium in Flushing by Dr. Clias. A. Pheips, chief surgeon of the New yon: Police Department. The operation was for the removal of varicose veins, extending from the hip to the'bottom of the foot of the patient, and it is represented as having been entirely successful. Whether any operation for the same purpose has eyer been performed, before is not stated, but it is certainly-an extraordinary) one; and outside of-the ordinary experience Of surgeons.'