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...doctors have performed an operation while lying flat on their backs. Last week near Mullens, W. Va., Dr. William Browning Davis was hurry-called to the bowels of a coal mine. A miner, one Aukstock Cotter, had been caught by the arms in the collapse of a corridor's slate roof. With an automobile jack his comrades had pried one arm free, but to free the other would topple down a mass of rock, kill the trapped man. Dr. Davis lay down and inched his way alongside the sufferer and, like an automobile mechanic unjointing a brake rod, amputated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mine Surgery | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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