Surgeon Performs Bold Operation
NEW PIECE OF SPINE BONE FROM A BUTCHER < United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright > (United Service) Recti. Noon. LONDON, Sunday. An operation which is believed to make a permanent cure of what threatened to be a hopeless case of tuberculosis of the spine, has been performed by a young surgeon at the Dudley Road Hospital. Birmingham lie grafted a 10-inch piece from a bone which he obtained from a local butcher into the spine of Harry Harris, aged 30, a farm labourer who has been semi-paralysed and bedridden lor two years. Harris has resumed work, and. walks 10 miles daily. The surgeon made a cardboard model, and the hospital carpenter cut the bone to the pattern. Then the surgeon inserted it in the spine. Gradually Harris was able to move about. Other similar operations have since been performed in less serious cases.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 413, 23 July 1928, Page 9
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144Surgeon Performs Bold Operation Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 413, 23 July 1928, Page 9
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