MARVELS OF WAR SURGERY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 139, 15 June 1916, Page 3

MARVELS OF WAR SURGERY

"I have seen two _soldiers, with shrapnel bullets in their brains, sitting up in bed talking and lauging with their friends. Is there no limit to the marvels of modern surgery'?' writes an /orderly in one of the London hospitals. Judging from the marvellous achievements of our war surgeons, we do not think there is. Quite recently a Canadian solider, whose lower jaw had been partly carried away by a fragment of shell, causing terrible disfigurement. w T as provided with a nevjaw. built with a piece of the wounded man 's ribs. In another case a lieutenant in a Highland regiment, whose lower jaw i had been almost completely blown ! away, was . doctored in a marvellous ; manner. The surgeon put a 7icw floor ! to the man's mouth, actuallv induced

two pieces of bone to grow on the i lower jaw, fixed complete artificial teeth, and healed the remains of the lips, with the result that now the maris as 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 was male for the first time in surgery.A soldier whose spinal cord had been completely severed by a shell splintes was so treated that in a short time he was able to move his lower limbs and gradually recovered his sensorypporers.w r ers. Another wonderful operation was the extracting of a fragment of hand grenade rrom the hear of a Parisian sergeant, Ihe cure being established beyond all doubt.