THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



out causing disturbance of their health. The 

 most recent success in this line has been the 

 transplantation of the whole joint- -the two 

 bone ends and the encapsulating ligaments- 

 from man to man in cases of removal of 

 joints by injury or disease. For many years 

 the bones of animals have been employed to 

 fill defects and gaps in human bones. Recent- 

 ly the whole knee j oint has been taken from an 

 amputated leg and introduced in the place of 

 a knee joint which had become destroyed by 

 disease. 



The work of Carrel in transplanting whole 

 organs, such as the kidney, from one animal to 

 another, is of prodigious importance to the 

 advancement of surgery. It has attracted the 

 attention and admiration of the scientific world. 

 Intestinal Among the procedures which have been 



surgery. made possible by the art of surgery is the sew- 

 ing of wounds of the intestine. These injuries 

 were once associated with a high degree of 

 mortality. Intestinal surgery has reached a 

 point of perfection in which the most extensive 

 damage to the bowel can be repaired. More 

 than ten feet of intestine have been removed and 

 the two ends of the bowel tube successfully 

 united. The excision of areas of irreparably 



