REMARKABLE OPERATION ON THE VICTIM OF A FIGHT.
An extraordlnaiy surgical operation was successfully performed Inst night at Constantlne, in Algeria, writes a Paris correspondent on September 30. A workman, during a quarrel with another man, was stabbed to the heart, nnd was taken to hospital, apparently dying. Dr. Mai tin gave him chloroform, and, having broken three of his ribs, cut Into the heart's envelope and removed three and a-hnlf ounces of clotted blood. Then, taking the heart In bis left hand, the doctor pulled it out until he saw the wound. A pressure of his hand on the heart made it beat more strongly, but irregularly. Dr. Martin made three stitches, put the heart back again, and It beat feebly, but regularly. The man is still alive, and there U every, hope of hli recovery.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 271, 13 November 1909, Page 17
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