Two Cases at the Hospital.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3184, 3 May 1879, Page 2

Two Cases at the Hospital.

There are two cases at the Hospital at present which are something out of the ordinary run of those usually treated at that institution. The first of these is that of Mr Kilgour, of Messrs Kilgour and Coombes' bush, Kauaeranga Valley. Some eighteen months ago he met with an accident in the bush, by which his ankle was crushed, and a portion of the flesh torn out. For the greater portion of the time since then he hat been under treatment at the hospital,.though lately he has been under the care of Dr Philson, surgeon of the Auckland Hospital., .-It-has been beyond the power of the medical men to fcause -this wound to heal, and it has become necessary to consider the advisability of amputating the leg. : We are informed that this operation; will be performed to-morrow, when the injured limb will be cut off below the knee. The circumstances of the other case are these: Some weeks ago a bush man named Mitchell, aged about 60 years, was employed at chopping a log, and while so doing fell down, and in some way injured his leg, so that he could not walk and was in great pain. His mates did not know what was the matter with him, and by the time they had conveyed him to the hospital, it was found the injured limb had swollen to a considerable size, and owing to this swelling it was some days before the house surgeon could. discover the nature of the injuries. When he reduced the swelling, however, he discovered that in his fall, the man had [snapped his thigh bone (just beneath the hip joint in such a place that there is no hope of the bones knitting, while amputation would mean almost certain death, so that the unfortunate patient will have to finish the remainder of his existence on (Hutches, ■