CALLED LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 127, 1 June 1931, Page 9

CALLED LONDON.

BEFORE CRITICAL OPERATION SYDNEY DOCTOR'S ACTION. CONSULTATION BY TELEPHONE. (From Our Own Correspondent.). SYDNEY, 3lay 28. Tiie wireless telephone between Sydney and London was recently called into operation in yet another sphere of ever} ■ Jay life, resulting'in the saving of liie. A Sydney doctor, from Lis surgery, consulted with a Hurley Street,- London, specialist on a delicate operation, ami iroin the advice received was able to perioral it successfully, and save Uk me of a woman patient. The patient had just returned from a trip to iinglanu, wuere she Had take, ill and liud oeen treated oy a Loiiu'.... specialist. On her arrival in Syuue,. sne again became ill, and coiisiiueu ~ ayaney doctor, lie advined an operate., ana in order to get lull detailo oi u>. ca»e and its peculiarities, and aiso iv. uiscus.i bpeeial icatures ot the operat.o.. iie telepnoiied the London specially liie conversation took place as Syciiic.. was awakening to the uawn of a lie.. day, while London's lights were begin iiing to t>UuW up uguniot the at me other end. Jb'roui the telephone the Sydney dodo; went straight to the operating thealie lie said later that he had had a pen* conversation with liio Loudon colleug i and that the possibilities of the ran » ; ['hone in urgent or peculiar cases and u. I iacilities vvnich it opened up for <•"■• sultation with the greatest speciaL-.. in the world of meiliciue and eiir;_en were of great benelit to the medical pi»l'ccsion in Australia. The use of such means of furthering the art of healing recalls the ease •> year or two ago of Jack Sigrist, a yoin.;: apprentice lad who fell down the ho., of a ship at Sydney and *" ;" and who ii. llOßpitel. became de»po> ■ „,„, l.on.csick. A Sydney ne«=p.. )imill ,, ( | a telephone Uveen bin. and h« »^h er * ~„,,! to the office of a Loadoa nor Mo' her and son spoke lor er-i. paper.. U°*P l ' a rft i he U d was put minutes ana 3» *J~r" . b&m %»d-to recovery.-