Show Laborer Is Alive Minus His Backbone Philadelphia After one of tho ram Dst and most difficult operations Known to surgery James Tournlgh 27 lies on an air mattress in tho Hahnemann hospital with a half of his spinal vertebrae cut away and with the spinal cord covered only by tho thin layer of skin which lies directly di-rectly over tho backbone The man was given up as in a hopeless condition when ho was taken lo the hospital with a broken back caused by n fall from tho fourth story Df a building His vertebrae was shuttered From tho waist down he was paralyzed |