Source: File: Wounded
undergoing operations WWI.
See an original image at: <http://history-help.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ww1_hospital.jpg>
[Accessed 24 March 2017]
Amid progressive
developments
Created by
situation of the war,
Were attempts by
medicine
In order to treat
severe wounds.
A son of the MP
James O'Grady,
Trade unionist of
Labour Party,
Was given cutting
edge surgery,
Badly injured
some months prior.
Severity mean
that an arm had
To be amputated -
the surgeon
Did not leave it
there, to cut
Part of the bone
from the arm.
Doing this he made the attempt
To save the
fellow's limb - an
Operation
followed to reattach
Arm once more to
the shoulder.
Severed tendons
were sewn
Back together -
this worked,
So the O'Grady
soldier was
Able to lift a
cup and drink tea.
The discernible difference was
To be that, the
arm compared
To the other arm,
was shorter;
The bone removed
2 1/2 inches.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1917. A Surgical Marvel. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 8 March 1917. P.6. Col.4. Available at:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214364/Daily-Telegraph-March-8-1917.html>
[Accessed: 24 March 2017].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 24 March 2017).
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