INJURED MONKEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 12

INJURED MONKEY.

PATIENT AT THE HOSPITAL.

THREE DOCTORS ATTEND.

USE OF X-RAY AND SPLINTS.

All the adjuncts of modern surgery, the equipment of an X-ray laboratory and the skill of three doctors were exercised in the Auckland Hospital on Thursday for the alleviation of the suffering of a diminutive monkey which had sustained a fracture of the leg in the course of its frolics at the Zoological Park. The animal is now back in its cage, cohvalescent, and as comfortable as one of the simian family could be with a third of its body encased in plaster. The injured monkey is of the South American spider species and it has been kept in a small cage for some time. When it was noticed the monkey was moving with pain and dragging the limb, the curator applied splints. Hearing of the animal's misfortune, a specialist attached to the staff of "the hospital, who has taken an interest in prescribing for animals at the zoo, offered to invoke the science which would be employed in the case of a human being similarly injured The monkey was admitted to the Auckland Hospital and an X-ray examination disclosed the limb was broken below the knee. A whiff of anaesthetic was administered and with three doctors stand - jig by the leg was s.et in plaster. As the monkey is young and docile there is every prospect the injury will heal completely within a few weeks. .. There is a mute corroboration of the Darwinian theory in the fashion in which the sufferer takes its incapacitation. The day is spent in chewing incessantly, grimacing at every move, and in watching a cage companion cavorting about and cutting capers which only a monkey sound in limb could attempt.