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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 1, 1 January 1919, Page 30

li I have removed the human lung from the chest cavity with forceps, tied its bleeding blood-vessels, cleansed its outer surface, and, while still holding it in my hands and manipulating it as you would a handkerchief, I have run thin pieces of gauze up its tracts. Feeling my way carefully along its walls, I have removed a bullet or shell fragment. Then, after suturing the aperture, I have placed the respiratory organ back into the cavity of the chest. In two -thirds of the cases

upon which I have so operated the patient lived." This was one of many amazing statements made to 1,200 medical officers of the American Army at Camp Greenleaf, by Colonel Pierre Duval, of the French Reserve Medical Corps, early in November. Colonel Duval was on a visit to America with ten of the foremost surgeons of England, France and Italy, to attend the InterAllied War Conference of Surgeons. — From the " Evening Post,"