WAR SURGERY MARVEL.
SUTURE OF THE SPINAL CORD. TffE suture of the spinal cord has been made for the first time, as far as is v known, in surgery, by Dr. F-mile Girou. Describing his achievement in the Prris Academy of Medicine. Dr. Gircu said the I patient was a soldier who had been hit by a shell splinter which imbedded itself I in /the whole breadth of the vertebral I canal, completely severing the spinal cord- ! The operation, which was performed in disastrous conditions on a dying man, g&ve results far beyond anything" they were entitled to hope. The man was now able to move his lower limbs, and was gradually recovering his sensory powers. The enormous sloughing sore, which normally ought to have killed him in a few , days, was healing up. The fever had dis> appeared, and his general condition wis : l" good. - S
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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147WAR SURGERY MARVEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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