Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1920 — Made Good Use of Hairpin. [ARTICLE]

Made Good Use of Hairpin.

Dr. Arnold K. Henry of Dublin, who was a surgeon with the British expeditionary forces in France, relates in a letter to the Lancet several instances of using a hairpin when called upon to perform an operation without the proper tools. In one case he horrified the mother superior of a French convent by using a common hairpin, bent as a retractor for an eyelid. In another he extracted with it a foreign body from the ear, which syringing had failed to remove. Once when he had to perform tracheotomy on a baby, with no »lnstrument but a knife, he borrowed a hairpin, bent it, inserted It into the wound In the throat and utilised the projecting ends as attachments for tapes around the neck.