THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, · 1937.
9-year-old Girl Growing a New Leg Doctor's Miracle of Surgery Saves An Amputation
"Will be Exciting to Walk and Dance Again"
By ANDREW KIDD
London, March 1.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl is making surgical history at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, E., by. growing a new leg.
Yesterday 20 or 30 famous surgeons were gathered round her bed discussing the "miracle."
The little patient, fairhaired. He could do no more: it was Na- brown-eyed Ella Hunter, of ture's turn.
-Stoke Newington, was admitted
to the hospital suffering from an injury to the leg. She had been hurt while playing.
She was found to have osteomyelitis of the femur; her thigh bone was infected by a deadly bone disease. Surgeons found the wasted to a pulp. Amputation was the only normal cure.
bone had
But a brilliant surgeon decide to try a daring experiment.
He removed completely the bone- shaft of the femur from the hip joint to the knee. He left behind the periosicura-or
tlasur which covers the actual bone.
Infinite skill was needed, since had the periosteum been damaged, the leg..would have been lost.
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But the discased bone was taken away and the outer covering--which Jas bone-forming properties--left intact.
NEW CELLS FORMED
to
And Nature finished the work. To-day the little girl, after 19 weeks in hospital, has a brand new femur-firm, straight, and strong.
"At one time," an offcial at the hospital told me, "there seemed no hope of saving her leg. It was n case where complete amputation of the infected limb is the normal pros cedure.
WHAT IT MEANS
"In about three weeks Ella should be able to leave the hospital. We expect she will be normal in every way, able to walk, run, and dance.
be
The success of this experiment means lent omputation may
minecessary in many similar cases, But we belleve that the experiment would only be successful with child patients."
As one
Ella, as she lies in bed wilk her Jeg in splints, has become known of the meat cheerful patients in the hospital, She read stories
the Lo
lier children.
Slowly the periosteum began form cells, which multiplied, calci- She eagerly awaits visits from her fled, and knitted themselves together, ¦ parents, her freisters, and two
Ella Hunter was growing a new leg. brothers. Euch weck the surgeon anxiously
me, "I examined the X-ray photographs of the leg.
"Most of all," Ella told want to get well soon. It's going to be exelting to walk on my new leg."
Coronation Revelry
COLOUR-FLASHING
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ILLUMINATED fountains will flash in colour up 'and
down the country-if a plan put forward to instal them in time for the Coronation is taken up by local councils..
They have been designed by the Office of Works and provide for jets consuming a trifling amount of power for lighting and pumping.
The plan is given in the current issue of The Engineer, where an article states: "A small illuminated fountain need not;
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Will Queen Elizabeth wear three or four ropes of pearls with her Coronation rabes?
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EVEN IN DAYLIGHT
RAMSAY MAY GO
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By A Political Correspondent
The Queen gave special sittings to
Metcalfe for the design of Coronation meduis, yet the two designs, shown at the Royal Mint differ: Mr. Langford pictures the Queen wearing three strings of pearls: Mr. Metcalfe four.
An official of the Mint suit that
approval, the King and Queen having
both designs have now received Royal
WHEN Mr. Baldwin retires from the Premiership
after the Coronation, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald,sat several times to each artist. National Labour Lord President of the Council, is expected to go, too.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who will succeed as Premier, Intends to make
big reshuffle of offices
Several Cabinet Ministers will re- tire, A number of junior Ministers will be given different offices from those they now hold.
ALLEGED PLOT TO KIDNAP "QUINS"
SLIGHT SMILE
by
A new departure is a prototype pattern, effered to the trade for in- corporation In medals Issued public bodies. One side only been prepared, bearing Mr. Long- ford's design.
has
The Queen's profile appears at a lower level than the King's, to show more of the Queen's features, a barely percepúble
She kiss nursery
Toronto, Mar. 1. Five policemen instead of three One of the Ministers whose re- are guarding the "quins" tirement is
expected-at least ul Callander to-day as the result of from his present office of War rumours of a plot to kidnap at least Minister is Mr. A. Duff Cooper. two of the five little girls,
smile,
The official Coronation medal, by Mr. Metcalfe, will be struck at the, It is expected that Lord Chancellor i The authorities do not attach Mial alone. It will not be ready un- Hailsham, who has been seriously ill, much importance to the report, Mr. til April.
W. will offer is resignation. If it is Arthur
Roebuck, Attorney- In accordance with precedent, the accepted, Home Secretary Sir John General for Ontario, declared to-day, medal gives on the obverse the head Simon may take his place on the "But," he added, "we are taking no of the King, with the Queen's on the Wootsuck.
chances."-Reuter.
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