PRESCRIPTION BY WIRELESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 8

PRESCRIPTION BY WIRELESS

'AID FOR SICK' CAPTAIN 100 MILES 'Y AWAY.; .. . j How s ship's , doctor' prescribed, by wireless:foif; the sick, captain of another ship was told on- tlio arrival of tho liner : Cirduna at Liverpool. Just before the vessel entered 'tho:Straits' of - Magellan a wireless message , was received from tho .British- steamer Brodstone - saying. thaMhe master was. ill and asking the doctor of Ihe. Ojdima, to prescribe for him. :! • Dr.' Aylward' agreedj tb do so, but first asked five, questions, which were put and answered in twenty minutes. The, .'than "prescribed for; the patient, who'was ;at least 100 mileß away.. -I-",, "vV', ' Two days later . both! vessels arrived at Punta Arenas, and the captain o! the BrocJstgno • , : and a foe of a-guinea to the Orduiia's doctor. An Atlantic Jiner's 120-mile voyage to an island' m' rbs'p6nso' to; a wireless Appeal for medical aid was reported on the arrival of the. Allan liner Victorian at Liverpool. • ■■ ■■ '

A wireless ; operator, L . Mr. William Peak, attached to the Marconi station, on the Island of 'Anticosti, iri the estuary of thov'St,^.Lawrence,/was; severely wounded in a giin accident while out duck-shooting. ' The wireless appeal for a doctor., .'cached., the -Victorian when she wagSi'bout'l2o miles away on May 13. She headed, at once for the island and arrived there. tho same, evening. Owing to the rough sea no attcmpi to land could ,;be made that night, but 'communication with the island was maintained,- and the ship's nursery was prepared ~as an operating .theatre.-. In the iriorning. a_ boat was sent "to the shore; three miles from the ship, and the injured man, who,.was exhausted from-shockandlosg ofblood, was taken off. : After an operation lie gradually, improved under the attentions, of Dr. Mo ft at fc- Thompson, the ship's dootor, and Sister Gerrie,, of Dr.. Barnardo's Homes, who was a passenger. He was landed at Liverpool, -and was reported to he-progressing favourably;*'.! 73nt for the promnt response of tlio Victorian tho injured man r wo'uld probably. have lost his life, "■■■■ ■