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Show "SURGERY DY WIRELESS" LATEST DEVELOPMENT Now Orleans, April 29. Hoy n laborer la-borer on Swan Island, a lonely wireless wire-less station In tho gulf, suffered a crushed foot: bow tho wireless oper-ntor oper-ntor on tho Island communicated with a ship 420 miles nwny, raised the surgeon nnd got. htm to explain tho proper wny to amputato; then how tho operator's assistant performed perform-ed tho amputation is a story told by tho manager of n big shipping firm today. Now OrloanB physicians described des-cribed It as "surgery by wireless." On Swan Island Is n wireless station, sta-tion, ono of tho links In tho chain to the tropics. When a laborer's foot was hurt In n trnmcar' accident tho oporntor concluded an operation was Imperative. There was no ono nt the station that ovor had hacked at n fellow-being. Then tho operator had an "Inspiration." "Inspira-tion." Ho called a fellow craftsman on a ship passing 420 miles below In the nrlbbean sea. Tho situation wns explained to tho ship's surgeon and detail by detail ho explained Just how tho nmputation should bo handled. handl-ed. After tho nrterles had been tied and tho wound dressed tho patient recovered his souses and Insisted on pressing nt tho wireless key to ex-press ex-press his thanks. At last accounts ho was getting well. |