Marvellous Surgical Feat.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43349, 14 July 1908, Page 3

M arvellous Surgical Feat.

Mop, LEG baked and frozen 'aJ TO -SAYE HIB LIFE. After .experienced physicians had declared that even amputation of a leg'/bight not'save the life of Policemjm CoJes Carpenter, and a priest ha,d- been summoned to administer tp»'last rites of the Church, Dr. ftayinond Sullivan, a young interne Hospital, New York, succeeded by the alternate baking /freezing process in saving Carpenter’s life and leg. f stepping from a car last Garpenter fell qn a rusty nail, Wounding his right leg. Mortificaset m, and last December it was cwcided amputation was necessary. Dr. Sullivan said he believed he .Could save the limb. And amputawon m Carpenter’s condition was 7 the interne was anpw;ed to ta:. K > the case. Sullivan “baked ’’ Carpenter’s ; leg in , a heat from 150 to 200 cfegrees to induce a rush of blood to . tue limb. .He then plunged it into •p ammonia ice .tank to drive the , lbod out quickly, and carry away the which had caused mortification. The treatment proved effective, and early in April Carpenter could use his leg with the aid of crutches. ; He has' since taken a long . walk without crutches, and his leg Will-soon be normal.