SURGERY MARVELS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1926, Page 8

SURGERY MARVELS.

OPERATIONS ON THE HEART A .NO DRAIN. Some wonderful ..surgical operations have been performed during the last year, of which the .London ’Daily News gives- one or two examples. The sight was restored to a five year old boy. The mother dreaded the operation, and when the eye shades were removed from the boy’s eyes Ins first question was: “dan I see the man what’s opened my eyes?" In October a man was operated on by Dr. Roberts, the chest specialist at Bt. Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, and a. Turkish bullet was extracted from bis left lung, where it had been for nearly ten years. Ribs had to be lemoved and the lung cut open in order to abstract 'the bullet. Recently a man aged 03 had his left ear torn olf in a motor accident. He was taken to the West London Hospital, where the ear was stitched on again. It was the first case of the kind at the hospital. An earlier operation at the same hospital was that in which part of a spike (weighing 41b.) was removed from between the heart and lung of a 13-year-okl boy. The spike was 91- inches long and 4) indies across at the tip, which was in the form of the Prince of Wales’s leathers. A. piece of the boy’s shirt had been forced into the wound. One of the spear-heads . penetrated the left side of the heart, pushing the . heart over to the right side, hut not puncturing it. 'i’he surgeons succeeded in extracting the spear-head and disentangling the shirt from-the lung. With the removal of the obstacle the heart went back to its normal position. The extraction of a bullet from, the brain was (tun operation isuccessfulJy performed at Charing Cross Hospital on a man Who shot himself in the Law Courtis. “ft is now possible to perform operations which would have been unthinkable some years ago,” a hospital official told the Daily News. “Surgery made immense strides during the war, and operations on the vital organs are becoming increasingly successful. ‘ “Almost every day brings .some patient into, hospital whose case would | formerly have been regarded as hopeless, but whom, by the application of modern surgical methods, it is now possible to save.’’