SEWING UP A HEART.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12507, 21 May 1906, Page 6

SEWING UP A HEART .

An extraordinary operation performed in. Paris by Dr. Q"g"?jH| the Cochin Hospital. A «";*l|fflH brought in suffering from a eclf-wqjflß stab in -the breast. The k^ifflg

' Merced tho heart, nnd the patient was " appearanw Dr. Quenu, however, Indieved he saw t-igns of life, nd determined to effect a mo>t delicate "Iration. tlio chest above ' the liwirt, lif esainmi'd the wound and " }" w l that the heart was .still bleeding. r • \t the fourth attempt h.' Kiicwedetl in '■ totting hold of the organ nnd in diaw- - inn it "cut. in twenty-five minutes h> ; (offcd "P 11|<> "■o || »<l Wl, ' l ;l n:!inite • -needlo and the finest thnwl. 11,; th.n ' titche<l the wound in the chos., Iwri- ! hWh! it. " ncl Pitted tiie pati-nt in br;l. ■ Vrtifirkil respiration w to. 'd >a ft, r a consulorab!.> tune the colour returned to the lip-- and it v.a, evident 'hat the patient Mill lived. Mi;» was nurficd with the greato.-t carts and ; SoS days lator e «t ~p h,r M and went home. Interviewed at Lr'home not long ofUγ thi-. an- ■■* oimc od that on the previous night she Tiad bwn to a ball and daned without ' e ven losins breath.