The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley.

  • Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.
Date:
[1922]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion shall be classed as experimental only, and shall be free. Contrary to my expectation, how¬ ever, Mrs. Unangst writes me that the Judge is remarkably improved, the swelling of the body having disappeared, and the drooling being much less. Mr. Joseph Ford, an employe of the Times for twenty-six years, was failing rapidly in health. He had hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, prostatitis, indigestion and very bad eye-sight, having to wear a 7 plus diopter lens to read with. I operated upon him, transplant¬ ing and blocking both glands, and within these few days he has had to discard his glasses, his eyesight being so much improved that he cannot see comfortably through the old glasses. He is also improved in every other way. Cases that also come into my mind at the moment are, Mr. McNeal of Pennsylvania, high blood pressure of 240, which the home doctors were unable to reduce by rest in bed, diet, drugs, or anything else. They finally told him it would be dangerous to reduce his blood pressure. His daughter brought him to my hospital in Milford, Kas. I transplanted goat-glands and also per¬ formed the Brinkley Blocking Operation. Four days after the operation his blood pressure zvas 158, he felt much better, and continues so. It was not dangerous to reduce this man’s blood- pressure, but it certainly would have been dan¬ gerous to permit it to remain as it was. Mr. Eschemann suffered from Bright’s Di¬ sease, High Blood Pressure, Hardening of the Arteries, Prostatitis, and general break-down,