Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1919 — WILL NOT HAVE TO UNDERGO ANOTHER OPERATION. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT HAVE TO UNDERGO ANOTHER OPERATION.

'Lieut. Gwin Thomas, son of Surveyor and Mrs. George A. Thomas, of Monticello, will not be forced to undergo another operation at the present time, according to information reaching 'his parents Wednesday. Lieutenant Thomas has already submitted to five operations during the time he has been confined in the military hospitals since he was wounded in August, 1918, and returned to the Walter Reed ,hospital at Washington a short time ago, after a thirty day sick leave spent at Monticello and Rensselaer, for the sixth operation. Lieutenant Thomas was wounded in battle when his ’ left leg was shattered by a shell; he was sent to a military hospital in France and shortly after contracted influenza which developed into pneumonia; he was critically ill for a long time and was only very slightly improved when he was returned to the. United States; when he arrived at Staten Island this condition was alarming and his parents were summoned to his bedside. There he submitted to operations for the removal of pus from his lungs, which although some what successful was not entirely so; he was then transferred to the Walter Reed hospital at Washington and there again was under the surgeon’s knife; during all of this time his condition was such that no special attention could be given the injured leg; finally when his condition would permit he was given a thirty day sick leave in the hopes of gaining additional strength to undergo an operation for the graftling of a bone in the leg, which he [expected to have done when he re- | turned to the hospital; however, i since that time he 'has undergone many examinations by eminent army physicians, who are of the opinion that with radiant heat and massage treatment an operation may be avoided. Lieutenant Thomas stated in a letter that the leg was gradually improving as the result of the few treatments, which he had received. Lieutenant Thomas was married to Miss Lura Halleck, of Rensselaer, while a> patient in Debarkation Hospital No. 2 at Staten Island and she has since been with him. At the time of her marriage Miss Halleck was employed as a war worker at Washington, D. C.