The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley.

  • Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.
Date:
[1922]
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Credit: The Brinkley operation / by J.R. Brinkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there were numerous adhesions all over the in¬ testines, the lower lobe of the liver was almost obliterated by previous injury of some years standing, a circumcision was positively called for, his rectum was filled with hemorrhoids, and the sphincter muscle was tightly contracted. Here is enough infection and pathology to pro¬ duce insanity in a nervous subject without stressing dysfunction of the endocrines. His reaction to the Brinkley Compound Operation is satisfactory and he should make a gradual re¬ covery to normal. These are recent cases, fresh in my mind, cited only to show pathological find ings at time of operation. I am convinced that the profession does not give such cases sufficient consideration. They are considered incurable and dismissed at that, with no efifort to see what can be done for them by up-to-date surgical procedure. Consider the case of Miss Marion Hatter. This young woman was brought to me by her mother a year ago, in the face of violent oppo¬ sition on the part of every specialist and physi¬ cian consulted, and they were many. They bluntly said to the mother: “Mrs. Hatter, your daughter is incurable. Dr. Brinkley’s goat- glands are bunk. You will waste your money if you take your daughter to him. If anything could be done for her we should knozv it, and zde should do it!” The girl had been, and was then, in the State Asylum for the Insane. Mrs. Hatter had heard of my work in similar cases, and refused to accept this powerful adverse