MODERN SURGERY
ELIMINATION OF DEFORMITIES GREAT ADVANCES MADE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrighi RICHMOND (United States), v March 12. Dr Walter Stuck and Dr Charles Venable told the South-eastern Surgical Congress to-day that by the use of modern technique there was little reason for persons to emerge from hospital with a bad limp or the inability to use a hand or arm normally. Modern surgery could offer the almost complete elimination of deformities resulting from broken bones. Forecasting new methods in military surgery dealing with compound fractures as well as in accidents in, civil life, they declared that by the tise 'of the new metal, vitallum, for splinting and nailing bones together, and. the sprinkling of open compound wounds with sulfanilamide, complete recovery had been attained in 90 per cent, of the oases treated J
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Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 2
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134MODERN SURGERY Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 2
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