Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — NEW FEAT IN SURGERY. [ARTICLE]

NEW FEAT IN SURGERY.

A *B,OOO Ear Is Grafted Onto tlx* Head of a Millionaire. In Philadelphia the other day Dr. Andrew L. Neklen performed the operation of grafting an ear upon the head of a western millionaire, whose name the surgeon says he ia under bond not to reveal. The operation was to have been performed iu New York, but District Attorney Jerome is said to have Interfered. Dr. Nelden advertised for a man willing to sell an ear for $5,000, and of 300 applicants .he selected a young German who conducts a restaurant in New York. “The operation has been performed, and promises to be successful,” Bald Dr. Nelden. “I am under legal contract and heavy bond not to reveal the name of my patient. Generally speaking, he Is a wealthy man from the West. How he lost one ear I do not know. The two men were placed in opposite directions upon an elongated bed. One-half of the volunteer’s ear —the upper half—--was cut off, together with about four inches of the skin behind the ear. This was twisted around and fitted to a freshly prepared wound upon my patient’s head. The half ear was held in place by band* ages, and the two men bound ao they cannot move their heads. They must retain this position at least twelve days to allow the circulation to come through the flap of skin that still remains a part of the volunteer’* scalp. If this half ear starts to unite property the lower half of the ear will be grafted in the same manner.”