BROKEN NECK SET
The third broken neck case in nine months was successfully treated at Worthing Hospital, England, recently, when Mr D. R. Jones, aged 35, underwent what is understood to be the first successful treatment of a neck both broken and dislocated.
When his neck was carefully placed in plaster, the slightest false move would have meant death. A few days later the patient was again encased in plaster, and again a slip of a millimetre would have been disastrous. The same doctor treated all three cases. The patient was covered in plaster from his head to his waist. Mr Jones was injured when the car he was driving mounted the pavement and turned two somersaults. Fracture,and dislocation of the neck is a dangerous condition because pressure on the spinal cord occurs, and results in paralysis of the breathing appartus. Even during the operation this may happen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 4
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