MARVEL OF SURGERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 12

MARVEL OF SURGERY

An amazing example of suC I )3S .. long-distance surgery has ar wonderment in South Africa. ‘ ing to cabled instructions rec from Leningrad, a Johannesburg geon successfully operated for t of gangrene. During the war *7 man received a bayonet wounu. allowed it to go undressed, aao years later, when a civilian# veloped pain in the leg. whi<- B diagnosed as due to gangren?nine years he suffered agony, unable to walk, as he ref^ us ®“ . - s * the limb amputated, which, -clared was the only cure, "- big aid of a motor, he carried o ness, his energy spurred by tj , p ledge that he had heavy mea » to pay through consulting ni . tors. Finally, one of his \jn' formed him that gangrene n cured twice in history without tation—once by a French d° c ._V another time by a Russian- rfS o / - involved, the patient, as a ff-* surgeons were unaware of th - cabled to a Russian doctor grad for details. The me ffi nrl uat-’ passed cost £24, but the im received enabled a Johannes geon to perform the o*'' tion, consisting of the reu» certain body gland. The P atl • ( ,fi completely fit. and lias his limbs. In addition, hi pr which was built up P.riman*. . g p vide funds to pay medical *’• pering, and he is now a W©