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Show Surgery by Wireless. New Orleans. How a laborer on Swan island, a lonely wireless station in the gulf, suffered a crushed foot; how the wireless operator on the island communicated with a ship 420 miles away, raised the surgeon and got him to explain the proper way to amputate; then how the operator's assistant as-sistant performed the amptuation is a story told by the manager of' a big shipping firm on Monday. New Orleans Or-leans physicians described it as "surgery "sur-gery by wireless." |