CLEVER SURGICAL FEAT.

Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 2

CLEVER SURGICAL FEAT.

A modern miracle of surgery -was described this week at King Edward VII. Hospital, Windsor. A stable-boy named William Robertson (38). of the Broadway, Lamboiirn, Berks, was preparing a horse to run in a races when the skylight foil ■ and out his nose clean off. He was taken jto King Edward VII. Hospital without jhis nose. The arteries wc-ro tied, and the j surgeon than asked for the nose. It was ! stated that it was' left behind in the ! stable at the racecourse. A messenger i was immediately dispatched to trie stables, ! where the nose was found _ in .the straw. It was taken to the hospital, where an operation was performed, and the nose was put on again. It had then been off about an hour. This week Robertson was discharged from hospital. He said it was a miracle, and he could not apeak too Jughly j of tho skill of the surgeon and the atteujtion of the nurses at tho hospital. Sir 'William Shipley, vice-chairman of King | Edward VIT. Hospital Committee at 1 Windsor, stated in an interview: "The I nose was washed in fait and water and then sewn on by one of the honorary sur- ' geons. After considerable trouble on the part of tho sister and nurses—it needed almost hourly dressing with warm salt solution—the nose recovered its vitality, obtained a new blood supply, and healed on. There is scarcely aty deformity. In fact, it looks as good as e\\>r. v The remarkable thing about it is that though the nose was oft an hour it lived. I have 'nerer known.o£ a similar case."