Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — Bone Surgery Marvels. [ARTICLE]

Bone Surgery Marvels.

A reserve officer in the United States medical corps who recently returned from Great Britain is loud in his praises of the work in bone surgery being done in British hospitals. He says: “They can take a rib from a man and use it to replace a crushed bone in his arm. Patients who in earlier times would have been considered permanently disabled are now fixed up in a few wfeeks so that they can go back to the front. In a single month, in one hospital, we had 1,350 bone cases,- and 1,000 of them were ready at the end of the month to go back and fight again.”

If we are to judge people by what they say, some men must live on hay and thistles. <