"HOPELESS" CASE CURED
TUBERCULOSIS OP SPINE WONDERFUL OPERATION <E!ec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assu.) (United Service.)(Received July 23, 2 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. An operation, which it is believed will result in i\ permanent cure of what threatened to he a hopeless case of tuberculosis of the spine, has been performed by a young surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. lie grafted a 10'iu. piece from a bono obtained from a local butcher into the spine of Harry Harris, aged 30 years, a farm laborer, who has been semiparalysed and bedridden for two years. Harris has resumed work, and walks 10 miles a day. The surgeon made a cardboard model, and the hospital carpenter cut the bone to pattern. Then the surgeon, inserted it in the spine. Gradually Harris was able to move about. Other similar operations have since been performed in less serious cases.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 8
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