OPERATION ON COLT
Bone Taken From Leg “The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL, July 13. The 10-month-old Sabaean colt Johnny, from Auckland, is on his feet eating normally and seemingly fit after a difficult two-hour operation at the Southland Hospital on Saturday. Johnny, brought south for the operation by Mrs L. F. H. Gerken, of Titirangi, was under anaesthetic for two hours while an orthopaedic surgeon and a veterinarian removed a wedge of deformed bone from one of his hind legs. The operation—known as a wedge osteotomy—is believed to be the first of its type done in New Zealand, perhaps in the world. It was performed in a special theatre-stall set up at the hospital. The hospital superintendent (Dr. H. Hunter), a radiologist, and other staff assisted with the operation.
If the operation is not a success Johnny will never be able to support his weight on the leg and will have to be destroyed. The veterinarian said it would be at least three months before the result of the operation could be gauged. The plaster would stay on for about six weeks and the colt would spend another six weeks regaining, it was hoped, the use of the leg.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30802, 14 July 1965, Page 4
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