HEART ENCASED IN LIME
MELBOURNE SUFFERER OPERATION IN U.S.A. MINNEAPOLIS, April 29. Physicians of the Mayo Clinic, after a week’s treatment of Alec Watkins* Melbourne, declared that his heart was completely encased in lime, and that his was one of the rarest cases in medi-» cal history. , Plans are being made for the dinw cult operation of removing the casing from the heart. . Watkins’s disease is called construciva pericarditis. It has obstructed one oC the veins returning the blood to tha heart. Watkins’s father said that tha best that he could hope for was ai thousand-to-one chance, but his son was willing to take it. , _. , Australian physicians who diagnosed the case had admitted that there was a possibility of a surgical cure, but had expressed uhwillmgness to take th* chance. . ~ The father has received a cablegram stating that a similar ailment has beeni cured surgically in Australia since tha family left there.
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 9
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152HEART ENCASED IN LIME Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 9
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