Difficult Operation at the University Hospital

The university doctors are called upon to perform most every kind of an operation during the course of a year but yesterday, at the University hospital, there was one of the most unusual upon which the surgeon is ever asked to contribute his skill.

A little girl was brought here suffering from spina bifida. In other words, there was an opening or breech in the bone of the spinal column from which the membrane to the spinal cord protruded. This caused a leakage of the spinal fluid which would eventually result in death.

The surgeons cut open the back of the child, and practically put a patch over the membrane by dissecting back the skin and then sewing it up so as to strengthen the membrane.

The operation was successful in every way.