Show mends a boys B rohena broken back physicians Phal dans entertain hope for rf alv cry of youth injured while diving providence IL I 1 one of the most delicate surgical operations ever performed in this city took place tho the other day when harlan ness the seven t teen year old son of john ness a manufacturer of ware mass was operated on for fracture trac frac of the spine opine while diving at buttonwood R L I 1 last friday the boy dived into low water and struck on hla his head breaking the spinal column between the third and fourth verie vertebrae brae the operation was performed athis at his fathers summer residence by dr thomas P F black assisted by drs eugene kingman william mcdonald jr and S H long the most critical part of tho the operation was that of stitching the bones together by wire after the boy recovered from the ether dr dlack black said that he enter bained hopes for the lads lada recovery |