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To Mend His Broken Neck

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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A novel mode of treatment in an attempt to relieve a young man of the effects of breaking his neck is being tried at the Flower hospital. The patient is enveloped in a piaster cast from the waist up, nothing but his face being lef t bare. This is to prevent the slightest movement of the head or ueck while the muscles and bones are adjusting theruselves to their normal relations. The subject of the treatment is George Menge, 19 years oíd, of Philadelphia. Last January, while he was exercising in a gymnasium, he feil from the horizontal bar, striking on the back of his head. The physician who was called in said the muscles of the neck were sprained, but after two weeks in bed Menge, although able to sit up, could not raise his head except by using his hands. When his head was unsupported, it feil forward on his breast. As he had not recovered at the end of seven weeks, he was sent to the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia, where an examination showed that his neck was broken. An instrument was attached to his head to hold it in place, but no improvement resulted. Three weeks ago Menge started for the Catskills, intending to return to Philadelphia later for further treatment, but while staying with some friends in Brooklyn he was persuaded to put himself under the care of Dr. William Tod Helmuth at the Flower hospital. The piaster cast will be kept upon Menge until his recovery, of which the surgeons are very hopeful, or until the experiment is seen to be a failure. If successful, the patiënt will still be able to get about with his head in a brace.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News