A CLEVER OPERATION.

Evening Star, Issue 2961, 15 August 1872, Page 2

A CLEVER OPERATION.

We have to record a very successful and difficult operation performed by Mr Beaney of Melbourne, on a young gentleman, the son of a well-known merchant, in Adelaide. The lad had suffered for a long time from disease of the hip joint, and for which he had been treated by the leading medical men in that city ; the patient, however, ultimately became a cripple, the result of complete anchylosis of the joint, causing thereby great deformity of the limb. The surgeons in Adelaide informed the parents that nothing more could be done in the case, and also that he would be a cripple for life ; and they further added that any attempt to remedy the deformity by operative interference would inevitably destroy life. In this condition he »vas brought to Melbourne to Mr Beaney, who at once decided to perform an operation for the cure of his patient. About ten weeks ago that gentleman, assisted by Drs Fisher and Fulton, excised the hip joint, which, under the circumstances, was a difficult task, although the patient was deeply under the influence of chloroform. From that time he has never had a bid symptom, and has made an unusually rapid recovery. He is'nowcuredwith perfect motion of the limb. He had cratches mad- for him when he was first allowed te leave hid bed, )mt he has now thrown them aside. Any member of the medical profession can see this extraordinary case on application to Messrs Berghoff and TouzeU, the well-known tobacconists, in Collins street,— Melbourne Age. June 19th.