MODERN SURGERY.
IMPORTANT STEPS. Two important steps in medical science are reported from Baltimore. German scientists, it is stated, are planning to use an artificial kidney invented by Dr. John J. Abel, of the John Hopkins Medical School, to save lives in cases o.f corrosive poisoning and other maladies where death is the consequence of overworking the kidneys. The false kidney is a tube of glass which can be attached to the arm or some other part of the body. It is cc.n?iected with an artery on one side and a vein on the other, so that the circulation of the blood is not impeded. The impurities are filtered by means of the artificial kidney, and .are drawn frcm ti while the real kidneys rest. The second step is a new water cure for serious burns, which has met with remarkable success. A thirty-eight-year-old man, it is stated, has been restored to health, although two-thirds of his body was covered with burns. He was kept in a bath tub filled with water for six days and nights. The water, which wap. constantly changed, was greedily absorbed by his inflamed body, and the subsequent poisoning of the bodv was counteracted. Great quantities of water were given to the man to drink.—Daily Express.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 7
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