REMARKABLE OPERATION

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 November 1938, Page 3

REMARKABLE OPERATION

CHILD'S LIKE SAVED BRITISH. SLUG ICON'S SKILL LONDON. Sept. IM. —A remarkable operation entailing the removal of the patient’s eye and ultimate replacement. pi’i lormed by a young ophthalmic surgeon at St. Bartholomew s tl lis 1111 sI. is claimed to bo saving etnldion I roni death or blindness. Although medical and hospital authorities re I use to divulge bis name, it is understood that the voting surgeon is ;i loriner Ghmpic runner. The i.pernlion considered by the parents c| the child patient as a miracle, is Ini' the cure ol a malignant tumour at the back of the eye- It consists ol the removal ol the eye and the treatment ol the growth with minute particles ol radium. So successful Inis the operation proved, it is claimed, that doctors in different parts of England are sending their cases to Si. Bartholomew's Hospital, lor exaininai ion by this athlete

As a result ol his work, there is said to be hope that all children afflicted with I lie disease nia\ lie successfully I rented. There is evi.lr-uee in the person of I M-jnonl li-old Terence Alalhon. of Mceston. Nottinghamshire, both of wiiose eyes were alfccled. One was removed and rmlinni put. in its place, while minute particles of radium were inserted behind the left eye h,v a delicate operation, with the object of killing the last, traces cf the growth. Terence's parents despaired of his life less than a month ago, lint now lie clam hers* about his col with I lie energy and agility ol a perlerlh healthy child.