FOURTEEN OPERATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 12

FOURTEEN OPERATIONS

X-RAY PIONEER’S EXPERIENCE Professor Charles Vaillant, pioneer Roentgen ray experimenter, of Paris, last month underwent his fourteenth surgical operation for Xray dermatitis. The exact nature of the disease is still a mystery to medical science. The professor has successively lost his fingers, his hands, the whole of one arm, and one half of the other arm. Now the mysterious disease has spread to the body, and at the Hotel Dieu Professor Cuneo, the eminent surgeon, removed lesions from Professor Vaillant’s stomach. The operation in itself was relatively simple. The professor underwent it with his characteristic good humour. He is expected to be out and about again in a few days’ time, but the question is asked: For how long? Professor Vaillant began to manipulate Roentgen’s invention as far back as 1896, when modern means of protection against the effects of the rays were unknown. Two reasons why Kailangata Coal is the favourite are its great heat and its lasing qualities.—Advt.