Impression sketch for Bold War Science - by Jamie
Never had such opportunity
arrived,
For scale of war
victims in presenting
So many varied wounds
to surgeons,
To allow for
experimental operations.
Endless injured
soldiers were relayed
Every day - at a
French military Hospital
One 22 year old, presented to a surgeon
Doctor Guepin, as
a likely hopeless case.
In a lower part
of the young man's skull,
Occipital region
of the cranium suffered
A penetrating
wound - an abscess formed
By bone splinters, in cerebral hemisphere.
The severity of
the injured head required
An operation and
then another - to lead
To portions of
his brain being amputated -
The parts of
which protruded from wound.
Photographs that
recorded the process,
Were later
presented by Doctor Guepin
To Academy of
Sciences, Paris - to show
How one third of
a brain had been taken.
The 22-year-old
soldier to all appearances
Survived, to be
same as before his injury -
Thoughts, movements and speech seen
To function
correctly, despite all damages.
By his taking bold
action and with speed,
Guepin saved a man's life, who surely would
Have died - the
sections that were removed
To be preserved as
anatomical specimens.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Wonderful
Surgery - Removing Part of The Brain. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 17 February 1916. P.11.
Col.2. Available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12158343/Daily-Telegraph-February-17-1916.html
[Accessed: 17 February 2016].
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