Treatment Of Brain Disease In Girl
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BONN, June 19. Ruta Tomunis, the 14-year-old Australian girl, who was flown to Germany seven weeks ago in a desperate bid to save her life, left by air for Australia last night.- She was accompanied by her father, Mr Edgar Tomunis.
She had been under the treatment of Professor Peter Roettgen, one of Germany’s leading brain specialists, and a team of prominent surgeons, in the Bonn University Clinics for a brain disease, which could be fatal. Observers who had seen Ruta on her arrival seven weeks ago. and again today, said her condition had markedly improved. She was much livelier and took an active interest in things happening around her. But she was still very weak.
Mr Tomanis said that Profesor Roettgen and his assistants had ruled that she had sufficiently recovered to make the return flight. However, in Adelaide she still required much rest and good food.
Professor Roettgen did not operate on Ruta as had been expected when she arrived. He diagnosed an infectious disease of the brain stem, not a brain tumour as she was originally believed to have.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27999, 20 June 1956, Page 10
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