EMERGENCY SURGERY
Task for Sailor-Amateurs ENGINEER’S BROKEN LEG Sydney, September 2. A graphic story of an operation performed in mid-ocean by untrained men was told by tho officers of the Mtihia when she reached Sydney from London. Captain Andrews and a steward saved the life of an engineer of the Mahia, bound from New Zealand to London, without a doctor. When the engineer had his leg broken, the flesh being badly torn, he lost much blood, and his life was in danger. Wireless revealed that no ship carrying a doctor was within call, so the captain and the steward gave the man an anaesthetic, and, after strenuous efforts, managed to set the leg. The engineer was soon on the way to recovery, and is now convalescing in England.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 9
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128EMERGENCY SURGERY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 9
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