Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — It May Come to this. [ARTICLE]

It May Come to this.

A prominent surgeon suggests the principle upon which wounds la other vital organs ays dealt with by modern surgery might often be applied iwith equal success to the heart po Jlew of oases on record In which the wart has resisted thd effect of gunshot had other wounds for hours and wen days, it is at least open to discussion whether a surgeon might not open the pericardium, dean out the clots, and dote the wound in the heart wall, wts a qhgace for the parent of recovery, whlgh oertainly could not be lessened by the attempt It U| claimed that this is no more improbable pow than safe removal pf a tumor from tbs motor area of the baain esemsd to b* m toe recent past That tiie application Of sutures would peoemarlly stop the aqttyn of the heart Is not proved; and if H should be theft Would remain a question of possibly Starting it aggim The danger fimih entrance of into to® o^Wtatiofi