MARVELLOUS OPERATION
BONE GRAFTED ON SPINE
SEMI-PARALYSED PATIENT. NOW ABLE TO WALK. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, July 22. An operation believed to be a permanent cure of what threatened to be a hopeless case of tuberculosis of the spine, has .been performed by a young surgeon at Dudley Roacl Hospital,Binningbam. He grafted a ten inch piece of bone, obtained from a local butcher, into the spine of Harry Harris, aged 30, a labourer, who lias been, semi-paralysed and bedridden for two years. Harris has resumed work and walks ten miles daily. The surgeon made a cardboard model end the hospital 'carpenter cut- the bone to the pattern. Then the sdrgeon inserted it in the spine. Gradually Harris was able to move about. Other similar operations have since 'been performed in less serious-cases.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 July 1928, Page 11
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144MARVELLOUS OPERATION Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 July 1928, Page 11
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