Surgeons Save Life of Huge Python (Apr, 1923)
Surgeons Save Life of Huge Python
BY PERFORMING two operations within two weeks—probably the first attempt to apply surgery on such a scale to the treatment of reptiles— surgeons recently saved the life of a valuable python transported from India to Long Beach, Calif.
The python is 29-1/2 feet long, weighs 280 pounds, and is nearly 100 years old.
While being removed from the ship, the reptile’s neck was caught oh a spike and badly torn.A veterinarian having been called in, a muzzle was placed over the snake’s head, and the 14-inch wound was sewed up with silk thread. When the wound did not heal satisfactorily after 10 days, it was resewed with silver wire.
Love the hats!
Those women do not look as if they’re wearing sterile scrubs.