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...Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Antarctic Appendectomy | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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