Article January 26, 1899 Issue

Another Stomach Excised

Herbert S. Fuller

Some months ago I called attention through the columns of the Christian Science Journal to an operation performed by Dr. Schlatter of Zurich, who removed the stomach from a woman who recovered her health after the operation and continued to live when, according to "medical science," she should have been dead, as it had been held as a "scientific" fact, that without the organs removed from her a person could not live. She disproved the so-called scientific theory by continuing to live, despite the rule laid down in the books from which materia medica gets its inspiration.

Now, it would seem, that the law of mortal belief in that line having been broken, other disciples of materia medica realized that it never had any real value, and that they had been prevented from saving human life according to their lights by refusing to perform certain operations for fear that death would ensue, yea, from a positive knowledge, as they thought, that it would.

Emboldened by the work of Schlatter, doctors of thought dropped the old idea, and entered upon the new line mapped out by him, and as a result we read in the Boston Herald and other papers of January 11 and thereabouts, that a similar operation has been performed in the vicinity of Boston by one of its best-known surgeons, who has dared to go against the laws which he had thought before could not be transgressed safely, and he in turn has removed the stomach of a woman and she still lives and is comparatively well.

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