WONDERFUL OPERATION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 9

WONDERFUL OPERATION

DOCTOR WASHES BOY’S BRAIN. REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. His skull ' badly fractured, a five-year-old Dulwich Hill boy wan taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, in Sydney, last week, with his brain protruding through a gaping wound. A surgeon washed the brain, put it back, and to-day the boy is on the high road to recovery. The frightful injury, which would have caused death in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,, was brought about in a very simple manner. Several children were playing together. The boy was being chased by the others, and, in running, he crashed his head against a brick wall. When he was taken to the hospital he was bleeding from the left ear, ho had a largo gash above the left forehead, and below it the skull had been smashed like an egg-shell. Through the jagged hole portion of the brain was protruding. But, in spite of his terrible injuries, he w r as conscious. A surgeon was rushed to the institution. Ho cleaned up the wound and the exposed portion of the brain, put it back in its place—and the boy never turned a hair! Ho will be discharged from the hospital in a few weeks.