BROKEN NECK SET
Road Accident Victim
The third broken neck ease in nine months was successfully treated at Worthing Hospital. England, recently, when Mr. D. R. Jones, aged 35, underwent what.is understood to be the first successful treatment of a neck both broken nnd dislocated. When his neck was carefully placed in plaster, the slightest, false move would have meant death. A few days later the patient was again encased iu plaster, and again a slip of a millimetre would have been disastrous. Tlie same doctor treated all three cases. The patient: was covered in plaster from his head to his waist. Mr. Jones was injured when the car lie was driving mounted the pavement and turned two somersaults. Fracture and dislocation of the neck is a dangerous condition because pressure on the spinal cord occurs and results in paralysis of the breathing apparatus. Even during the operation this may happen.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 18
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151BROKEN NECK SET Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 18
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