Show MARVELS OF SURGERY IN WAR Surg Surgeons ons With Allies' Allies Fighters Repair Seemingly Hopeless Cases of Shattered Bone The marvels of surgery which have resulted from the stimulus of ot war work have e confounded the prophets News of the the bravery of at our fighting men meet Is not not more Inspiring than the accounts which come In constantly of the achievements of at the scientists of the ent entente In the field of ot surgery and medicine sa says s Portland Oregonian There landed In an eastern port the theother theother theother other day a Canadian soldier who Is only one of the thousands s who can thank their stars that c constructive science science science ence Is keeping pace puce with destructive enterprise He had been In the thick of at the fighting at Ypres In 1915 1015 shrapnel shrapnel shrapnel nel had shattered the bones of at both ankles and both wrists For a n long longtime longtime longtime time he lay In a London hospital believing believing be be- lieving that his case was case was hopeless and that he would be a cripple for life Then came surgeons who undertook the dell delicate ate task of ot literally setting him on his feet Eventually he be emerged two Inches or so shorter than when he enlisted walking straight with agile agUe step and with full tull comman command of his arms and hands In principle the repair of this soldier soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier was not a n wholly new thin thing bone surgery had made advances advances advances ad ad- vances In the decade before the war began An Interesting feature of ot the case cuse however Is that thu t It of was part the me routine or of a military hospital that the surgeons who performed the highly highly highly high high- ly Intricate operation and ma made e complete com complete com cout- restoration of a man who 20 years ago would have been doomed to a life Ufe of hopeless helplessness mal makes cs no claim to especial merit and that the whole accomplishment was treated as us a a- matter x t of at course The soldier Is so far recovered reco that he expects presently to return Joyfully to the firIng firIng firing fir- fir Ing line the surgeons turn without more ado to the next case which ma may maybe maybe be seemingly quite as ns hopeless but wholly different In matters mutters of ot and und detail |