The Washington times., 1914-01-10
Noted Surgeons
Bone Carpenter
Work Makes His
Patients Sound

Clank-clank- k-hammer- -pound-pound-
poundi This is the sound you may
expect to hear issuing from the win
pass from this time henceforward.
You may even think il isn't a hos
pital at oil, but a carpenter shop.
as the clatter of gimlets and augers
and nails and screws echoes out 10
you: nor will you be FAR wrong, for
the time is about. to arrive when all
hospitals are to become merely hu-
man carpenter shops. where broken
men and women are to be planed
down, nailed together, sandpapered
and sent out into the world as brand
new articles once more.
No, this is not a phantas2. 1t is
an actually. Men are being nailed
together, broken pieces taken out
and new ones supplied, and the en-
tire machine made Just as good as
ever-it's being done every day in
New York. How? Why. by the new
constructive bone sfrgery, of course
the latest thing in surgical science.
which in the space Of a year or two
has raised from lifetime sickbeds
hundreds of persons thought to be
hopelessly crippled and set them
walking about their daily work again
as though they had neverfknoWn a
sick day In their lives.
Following the lead Of Lane, the
rioneer In bone carpentry. the great
est surgeons In the land took up
the art of mailing uD broken humani-
ty, and today, DR.. John 3. Murphy.
the great operator in Chicago, and
DR.. George Stewart! one of the fore
most surgeons of New York, are
daily doing carpenter jobs on scores
OF persons who otherwise might have
spent their lives unable to move
in those grim hospital refugees for
the incurable that are a part OF
every big city.
HOUSE-BUILDER'S TOOLS
USED BY THE DOCTOR.
It might sound strange to the lay
man or even TO the old school OF
away the flesh from a hip fracture,
seizing a hammer and a few ten
penny nails and mailing up the break,
but that is precisely what the lead
crs in the new surgery OF bones are
doing. It would certainly have sound
ed like a dream a few years ago to
think Of using a carpenters brace
and bit to bore holes in a mans
shin. roaming out the holes with a
reamer. laying a silver or platinum
plate ever 1t, inserting half a dozen
screws and driving them in with a
long-handled screwdriver. But IL Is
just this operation that has sent
many a man into the street who
otherwise might have graced a hos
pital cot for the rest OF his days.
Bone surgery, including the trans
planting of good bones from a body
TO take the place OF bad bones in
living person while no doubt II has
frequently saved life. has done more
in the way of bringing back the de-
sire to live to those who have lost it
through contemplating a future OF
helplessneSs-
Given a set of DIR. Murphy's or DIR.
Stewards bone surgical implements.
a first-rate carpenter could go good
Job on any interior piece of carpen-
try work First, the layout consists
of a regular carpenters brace and an
assortment of bits for boring holes
from he size of pin TO that of a
good--czed screw. In addition to the
bits are six reamers. These range in
size from the diameter OF a dentists
drill to an inch. The bits are used
to bore holes IN the bones for the
reception of screws, nails. etc, while
the reamers are to enlarge the
of the big reamer, to trim
out medullary canals Of the long
bones for the insertion Of trans
planted pieces