MARVELS OF WAR SURGERY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 185, 23 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARVELS OF WAR SURGERY

••I have seen two soldiers, with shrapnel bullets in their brain?, sitting up in bed talking and laugning with their friends. Is there no linvt to the niarve.s of modern surgery?" writes an order] »• in one of the Londou hospitals. Judging from the marvellous achievements of our war surgeons, we do not think there is. Quite recently :i Canadian soldier, whose lower jaw had been partly tarried away by a fragment of shell, causing terrible disli.'urement, was provided with a new jaw. built wtli a piece of the wounded man's ribs. I.i another ease a lieuten; nt in a Highland regiment, whoso it.wcr jaw had been almost completely blown away, was doctored in a marvellous manner. The surgeon put a imv floor to the man's mouth, actually induced two pieces of bone to grow on the lower jaw, fixed complete artificial teeth, and healed the remains of the lips, with the result that now the nia-a is normal as ever, and the only trace of his mishap is a slight scar by the mouth. In another case the successful reuniting of the spinal cord wt«. made lor the first time in surgery. A soldier whose spinal cord had boon completely severed Ivy a shell splutter wn< se treated that in a short time ho v.as able to move his lower limbs and padunlly re, oveiv-d his sensory powers. Another wonderful operation was the e: trncting of n fragment of hand grenade from the heart of a Parisian sergeant, the cure being established beyond all doubt.