KING EDWARD’S OPERATION
A SUF.GEDH’S DISCLOSURE LONDON, May 15. In an address to the Medical Society Sir Janies Barry, the eminent surgeon, made an interesting disclosure regardill" the operation for appendicitis performed upon the late King Edward. Sir James Berry -said that contrary to the general beliei, King Edward's appendix 1 was never i amoved. The facts were tlint an incision was made and tlie abscess was reached and opened. Tubes and gauze were inserted, hut untiling more was done. Enthusiastic modern surgeons might treely have opened the abdomen and removed the appendix, hut the patient might have had little chance ol surviving eight days instead of eight years.
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Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 7
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109KING EDWARD’S OPERATION Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 7
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