NEEDLE TAKEN FROM CHILD’S LUNG
Delicate Surgical Feat By Telegraph—Press Association, i Auckland, May 10. A delicate feat of surgery to remove a needle from a child’s lung, identical with the operation for which an Australian boy was sent from Melbourne to the United States last year, was performed by one of the honorary surgeons in the t.hro,at department at the Auckland Hospital at the week-end. The operation was completed in linin. 35sec., and the child enjoyed a meal as soon as it recovered from tiie anesthetic. A good recovery is being made by the patient.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 5
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96NEEDLE TAKEN FROM CHILD’S LUNG Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 5
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