MENDING BONES
“NAILS” USED -A remarkable device for mending broken hones, called “The Nail,” aroused the interest of Red Army surgeons when they entered Vienna. “The Nail” is driven into the marrow of the bone. In cases of broken femurs the surgeon first manipulates the thigh in order to bring the broken pieces of bone together. Next, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire through the bone marrow canal, then slips the hollow stainless steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire, and sews up the incision. Later this “Nail” is removed, and the bone is said to be as good as new. By this method patients are able to walk without crutches in a week or two.
Dr. Lorenz Bohler, an Austrian surgeon, recently performed nearly four hundred . “Nail” operations in one week. The inventor of the new method is Gerhardt Kuntscher, a naval surgeon.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 51, 9 July 1947, Page 8
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167MENDING BONES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 51, 9 July 1947, Page 8
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