BED RIDDEN TWO YEARS; NOW WALKS 10 M. DAILY
WONDERFUL OPERATION EFFECTS PERMANENT CUBE United Service. :■ '; ' LONDON, July 22. An operation which is believed to have effected a permanent cure in what threatened to -be a-hopeless case of the tuberculosis of the spine was performed by. a young surgeon at the Dudley Road Hdjpital,-. Birmingham. The surgeon, grafted a ten-inch piece from a bone obtained from a local butcher into the spine of Harry Harris, a thirty-year-old farm labpurer, semiparalysed and bed-ridden for two years, Harris has resumed work, and walks ten miles daily, v * The surgeon made a cardboard model for the hospital carpenter to cut from the bone to pattern. Then the surgeon inserted it in, the spine, and gradually Harris was able to move about. Other similar operations have since been performed in less serious cases.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6669, 24 July 1928, Page 9
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139BED RIDDEN TWO YEARS; NOW WALKS 10 M. DAILY Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6669, 24 July 1928, Page 9
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