BROKEN NECK.
PATIENT RECOVERIN'G. That broken necks are not necessarily fatal has been proved several times during the last few years at the Sydney Hospital. Possibly within a few- years, cures in this class of injury will be almost common. But recovery is possible only when the spinal cord is uninjured. While the trouble is confined to the vertebrae, or bone, the patient may still hope to
There is such a case in tho Sydney Hospital io-day. With his head and neck packed in a plaster jacket, which gives him the appearance of a knight in mail armour, with the visor removed, Stanley Tingle lies in the hospital, an example of what can be done t.o a broken neck. He was swimming at Drummoyne, when he dived into shallow water, striking his head on the bottom, and breaking 17- neck. He was taken to the hospital, and after having been there only a week, he stated that he thought he was well on Ihe way to recoverv.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16696, 30 March 1922, Page 7
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