HOSPITAL MIRACLE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

HOSPITAL MIRACLE

CHILD GIVEN HIP JOINT. Can prayer set a broken bone? asked the sceptical surgeon .in Tennyson’s poem on the Children’s Hospital. Here Is the answer of the Victoria Hospital for children in London, to which there tame about six years ago a baby girl. Her parents were worried because, chough she was getting on for two, she did not seem able to walk.. The doctors found that Gwen had been born without a socket to one of her hips, and' it seemed as if she would never be able to walk or run about with other children. But miracles are performed at Victoria Hospital, and cases are not easily given ap as hopeless. The hospital surgeons put the hip in plaster of Paris, and two years afterwards, when Gwen’s little bones were properly formed, they used part of one hipbone to make a socket for the other. It was hopeful, but it meant yet another two years in plaster of Paris for the poor child, and the surgeons waited anxiously to know the result of the operation. Last. May the blaster was taken off, and all seemed well, but weeks of massaging and exercise had to be gon© through before they could be certain that their hospital-made socket would act like Nature’s. Then the day came when the whole hospital staff collected in Gwen’s ward; saw her stand up, hesitate for a moment, and walk out! To-day Gwen Jenkins is playing about with other child"en at her home in Croydon, and Victoria Hospital is jubliant over one more miracle worked in its wards.