Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-08 | Page 32 | Brain Amputation

Brain rain Amputation zE NE of oC the wonders r of or surgical science has b J Jeen O ONE been een performed In a French military h pital where a wounded soldier has had hId K lt without missing IF sixth of his brain amputated The patient was carried in fn with a penetrating penetrating- wound In the occipital region o of tho the cranium cranium- caused abscess 1 t. t to Splinters o of bone had an Ul form In the lire left leCt cerebral hemisphere T Tb The surgeon surgeon in r were removed by Dr A A A. Guepin to the hospital bu but l a a. fresh fresh abscess formed ana d Dr Guepin Guenin was obliged on two occasions to am am- portions of ot the tho brain which prot fJ dell at it le least leasta t ta from the wound The patient thus lost Jost sh ls s no a third of or the left lel hemisphere but 10 p l special signs of or trouble either cither of or or ideation