A NATIVE'S SURGERY.
Appendix Operation on Wife With Pocket-Knife. DOCTOR'S FEES TOO HIGH. (Received 10.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, December 11. Because the doctor's charge was too high a native at Middelburg, Transvaal, was induced to remove his wife's appendix. The native bound his wife and used his pocket-knife in the operation and sewed the wound with liair from a horse's tail. His employer summoned a doctor, who declared that the wound was healthy. The woman returned to | her work to-day after a week in bed. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 294, 12 December 1935, Page 7
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85A NATIVE'S SURGERY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 294, 12 December 1935, Page 7
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