FAMOUS OPHTHALMIC SURGEON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21792, 26 May 1936, Page 10

FAMOUS OPHTHALMIC SURGEON

Li AS I UULiKATIOIN I’EKLUKMEIS: '' IN DUNEDIN HOSPITAL > [THE PRESS Special Service.] ' DUNEDIN. May 25, I 1 Sir Lindo Ferguson, who has beeriP, $ senior honorary ophthalmic surgearf \i / to the Dunedin Public Hospital" for Jjjfi 52 years, to-day terminated his ser-, fg. vice in this capacity. It was appropriate linking of the past with > the future that Sir Lindo Ferguson’s last operation in his bfficial capacity ’Kih should be the first to be perfonpad in the new Saltzman theatre of eye, ear, and throat ward which - ss* bears his name in recognition of the vi* distinguished contribution he has made to ophthalmic surgery in Zealand. .'.-si-

The operation was carried out in the presence of Dr. James Thomson >' * (medical superintendent of the DutipSi edin Hospital) and Dr. Marion Whyte, Dr. K. Ross, and Dr. R. Butchart. It was performed by tße.'i's veteran surgeon with the same markable skill and steadiness that?V| marked his work when he intro-'-/. -f] duced this type of surgery to Dominion in 1884, the first operatioa?U being performed by him in Dunedin. The hospital theatre has not been equipped with the modern struments for the purchase of which iVF Mr Samuel Saltzman made a gift .'. v : of £ 1000 in October of last year; but these are expected to be aa^ sembled within the next six months. -V