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...things happened almost simultaneously at Little America one morning last week. The Administration Building's gasoline tank shot up in flames and Cameraman Joseph A. Pelter keeled over with a sharp pain in his side. "My surgical instruments!" cried Dr. Louis H. Potaka. "Under the tank...

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

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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