HOSPITAL HEROISM.
At Barry (South Wales) Red Cross Hospital a soldier had a slowly-healing shrapnel wound on the left arm,'and Dr. J. King decided to graft healthy skin upon it. The matron, Miss Tenniswood, gave the skin from her arm, and the man is progressing well. Previously she had given her blood for a patient, whose life was saved. At Leicester Royal Infirmary a young New Zealander, with a wound in the thigh, was sinking, and transfusion of blood was adopted. Corporal D. R. Desbois, an Australian patient, who had been wounded in Gallipoli and then in France, offered and gave a pint and a-half of his blood. When the chaplain saw him the next day' in bed and very weak, his only regret was that he had not been the means of saving his coim'ado's life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137HOSPITAL HEROISM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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