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(b) Report of the Professor of Surgery.
331. Cases treated:-
Table LXVII.
Treated in surgical wards (Horsley, Hilton and Lister) 509 Out-patients department 2,912 Ear, nose and throat department 1,515 Eye clinic (in-patients) 210 Eye clinic (out-patients) 2,819 Total 7,965 Operations under general anaesthesia 737332. The following papers were published:-
"A Case of Old Ununited Fracture of the Patella With Wide Separation of Fragments-Excision of Patella-Musculo-aponeurotic Transplant to Close Gap."
By K. H. Digby, and Wm. Lai Fook, Caduceus, Vol. 18, No. 1. February, 1939.
"A Case of Fracture of the Neck of the Right Femur with Anterior Dislocation of the Head (also Fracture of the Shaft of the Left Femur) illustrating the Importance of the Retinacula."
By K. H. Digby and T. K. Lien, Caduceus, Vol. 18, No. 1. February, 1939. "A Method of Raising Bone Flaps in Cranial Surgery."
By K. H. Digby.
333. Investigations have been carried out in connexion with a new kidney incision, with an apparatus to aid in ventricular puncture; and the study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has been continued.
334. The weekly staff rounds from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays (which general practitioners and other qualified men are invited to attend) have been continued throughout the year.
KENELM H. DIGBY,
O.B.E., M.B., B.S.; F.R.C.S.(ENG.)
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