Word: bohler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
Last week their fears were dispelled. Surgeon Bohler, now back in Vienna, has performed nearly 400 nail operations, on old fractures as well as new, without a single infection. No interference with the blood supply has been observed. Bohler recently published description of the operation, Die Marknagelung Nach Kuntscher is one of the most sought-after medical books in Europe, and the German factory in Kiel which makes the nails is far behind demand...