Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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02/06/1996 02:49 403--4846430 CHERNIAVSKY FAX PAGE 01 a Jahn neve FY ano reucel Felix Cherniavsky c / o Keyano College Edmonton Alberta Canada 20 Lancaster Road Dorchester Dorset DTi 1QH U , K , 23 April 2001 Dear Dr Cherniavsky , Over the years , I have become very interested in the life of Maud Alan . Firstly through her libel case and then incidentally through my hobby of collecting old postcards . I have found The Salome Dancer of great interest with so much new information and am writing to ask whether you can by any chance enlighten me on a rather obscure item . Another of my interests is in the life of Sir Frederick Treves . He was born in Dorchester in the 1850's and grew up to be a very successful surgeon and and specialized in the treatment of appendicitis . He treated King Edward VII for this and served three successive monarchs ag royal surgeon , moving in the same circles as Sir Frederick Ponsonby . After I had given a lecture to a local organization on the life of Treves , one of the members , who is a Consultant Surgeon in London , told me of an operating technique in appendectomy in which the incision is made low in the abdomen and that this was known as a Maud Allan incision ! It was supposed that , some time after the King had seen Maud dance in Marienbad , she had developed appendicitis and that he had asked Frederick Treves to perform the operation and do his best to see that future stage appearances would not be marred by an unsightly scar . I have been unable to justify this Of course the whole story may have been a joke amongst medical students and simply a comment on Maud's revealing costumes . Treves was a prolific writer but very professional in not writing about his famous patients ( except for the Elephant but there were instances where he took on patients at the King's request . Man ) , It is not very likely that you would have come across any reference to such an episode and this is not a very academic query but , for me , a minor fascination of biography is the crossing of paths in people's lives and I should be delighted if you were able to throw any light on the subject . Yours sincerely , Stephen Coult Stephen Pauiter