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Show LEARNS BY WIRELESS TO AMPUTATE FOOT KY 0RLEAN8. April CO. How a laborer On Bwan island, a lonely wire lees station iu the L'tt'l". suffered a crushed foot; how tho wireless operator opera-tor oh the aland eonrsQunicated with n ship 4'hj miles aw.iv, raided the stir genu and cot him to explain I he proper t a v to amputate; then Imw the operator's asaiaiAnl performed tho op ration, is a story told hy the man aer of a big ihippinc irm to. lay. New Orleans physicians described It as ' surgerv bv wireless.'' Qu S?.an island ie ft wireless station, one of the inkfl in the chain to the tropics, when laborer foot was hurt in a tram ear accidenl the operator eon chide. 1 mi operation was imperative. There was q0 One Bl the stalion who ever had hacked at a fellow being. 'Chen the operator had an ''insp:ra Hon." He culled a fellow craftsman on a ship pnseiuu IC'l inilex below into the aribbean sea The situatioa was explained to the ship's surgeon and do tail by detail lie evplaiued jnst how tho amputation ihould be handled. After the arteries had heen tied and the WOUad dressed the patient reo-ere.l reo-ere.l hi, lenaef and insisted on presi ine nt the wire)es key to express bis thauks. At last accounts he was yet ting well. |