SURGICAL TRIUMPHS IN WAR TIME

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2895, 6 October 1916, Page 6

SURGICAL TRIUMPHS IN WAR TIME

.' ' MIPUTATIONS • AND FATAL WOUNDS' DIMINISHED. . Australian-New Zeolana Cable Association. (Sec. OctoHjof 5, 8.10 p.m.) :\ '~ . New York, October i. ' Ox. Alexis'Carroll, oftho Hockefellcr . .' institute (whoso researches on cellular me attracted considerable attention a lew years ago), announces that the .adoption of reforms in surgical methods throughout Franco has resulted in a. vast diminution in- amputations and fatal .wounds. . Also, that the use of llio Oaken" solution for wounds is rendering possiblo much grafting of ■tissue for .bono and flesh; hitherto im- , practicable on a largo scale. Another reform is the adoption of the American Bys-em of speeding-up the transport cf the wounded. CROWDED BRIDGE GIVES WAY

MFTY PEOPLE KILLED. fficutor's a'cleeram.) •i i-j Vancouver, October 4. _■ A bridge collapsed in -Cleveland through being overloaded with tramours. Fifty people, were killed.. AUSTRIA'S_AGED RULER RUMOURS OF SENILE INFIRMITY FALSE. ■ Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ". (Rco. October 5, 9.15 p. In .) ' rm, , . Pet™?" -811 . Ootober 5. ifla late Rumanian Minister 'at Vienna, in an interview accorded to the 'Novoe Vremya," said that the austnan Emperor Franz Josef was still comparatively vigorous. Th e nl _ mours of his senile infirmity and apatliv are false. •* SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE SHIPPING COMPANY LOOKING AHEAD. ■ ■ ("The Times.") (Rec: October 5, 8.10 p.m.) - London, October 4. The Union Castle Lino has ordered fouy 15,000-ton steamers for the South African trade. Those vessels will have largo cold . storage capacity,. in antici-' paiion of an increase in meat and fruit export. fTne cable news in this issne a«credit«d to- the London "Times" has appeared in that journal, but only -where expressly stated is such noire the editorial opinion ■ of "The Tim&;."i