JAPANESE SURGICAL OUTFIT
Captured In Solomons
A most interesting capture from the Japanese on Guadalcanal Island is an elaborately fitted aluminium case con taining all the instruments a doctor might, need for any but the most complicated eye operations in the field. Tile ease, which is about 15 inches long by about eight inches wide and two inches deep, contains a slotted tray into which the instruments are snugly liited. This tray lifts out, conveniently carrying the instruments for sterilization.
The instruments are of German pattern, but their lack of finish suggests that they are Japanese copies. On the inside of the lid is a tabulated list with which the instruments can be checked. While the description of the various instruments in the table are in Japanese ideographs, it. is curious that the numbering, both in the table and on the instruments. is in our figures. When found, in a hospital the Japanese had set up near Henderson airfield, the case was in a canvas cover. 'l'lie original finder handed it over to an American naval doctor, saying that probably it would be of use to him professionally.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 5
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188JAPANESE SURGICAL OUTFIT Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 5
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