In Baltimore

Heart. One of the orifices of the heart of a 14-year old girl was so small the heart could not function. Death seemed inevitable. A surgeon opened the sack which enfolds the heart. He exposed the heart itself. While it beat, he inserted his finger into the orifice, opened it. Then the sack was closed, and slowly the patient recovered.

This operation was performed by Elliott C. Cutter of Harvard Medical School, and was by him described at the meeting of the American Surgical Association in Baltimore last week.

Foot. The foot of one Eric Hamilton was crushed in an elevator. A tuberculous condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from the flesh of the leg. He will then separate heel from leg. "Except for a scar on the leg, the man will be quite normal."